> Personally I have my lists set to CONCEAL by default; the reason being is > that we don't want our competitors to be able to access potentially > valuable mailing lists.... the most active users are already known anyway. This is exactly why LISTSERV has the option Review= Owners This keeps all prying eyes from seeing the subscriber list. Way back when dirt was fairly new and there were no spammers or address harvesters to worry about, many lists use to be set Review= Public As time progressed CONCEAL became a more important option to some subscribers. Today it is vital, ONLY if an inexperienced list owner used Review= Public or Private. > On the other hand it does make some management tasks a pain, such as having > to use GET to review the list of members Huh? If you use the below command, you get a list of everyone, concealed or not. REVIEW listname NOH ALL The bottom line folks: Unless you have a VERY good reason to have Review= Private or Public (which I can't think of one) Review= Owner should be used. This completely eliminates the need for Conceal for subscribers. If Conceal really bothers you, periodically set everyone to Noconceal. That is of course if you don't like or can't remember the ALL option when you need to Review the list :-)