Ah, cool, thanks..... I'll look into these options..... and yes, I'm inexperienced & runningthese lists is in addition to my day job! Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Lyon" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 6:02 AM Subject: Re: concealed members > > 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 :-)