On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Kevin Parris wrote: > To be excruciatingly precise, one does not login to the archive. One > may login to the site - you can establish a LISTSERV(tm) password > without regard to subscriber status on any of the lists hosted by any > particular site - the server doesn't care if you subscribe, it requires > only that you receive and respond to the "magic cookie" email. Yes, I have known for at least 16 years that LISTSERV passwords of this type are host site specific, not list specific. That, though, does not change what Russ Hunt said: > I had to put "public" in the line -- and after that, the addresses > were masked (except to subscribers with a password). Which is what I > wanted. N.B. He says "subscribers with a password". He does not say nonsubscribers with passwords. "Subscribers with passwords" = private list. Douglas Winship [log in to unmask]