On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Michael S. Johnson wrote: > > The flip side is that if you allow a subscriber to change Attachments = > Yes to Attachments = No, then it must be possible for the subscriber to > set it back to Yes again. On the face of it, that is reasonable. > > However, if you are a list owner who does not like subscribers to post > attachments, than allowing an individual subscriber to set Attachments = > Yes will defeat the list owner's preference. Why? The code for this option could be written in such a way as to allow an "Attachments= No" keyword in the list's header to take priority of any subscription options.