On Sun, 5 Jul 1992 00:39:51 EDT Taylor Roberts <[log in to unmask]> said: >I've been wondering why the default for STATS is "private", since it >seems desirable (at first glance, anyway) that a list's statistics be >available easily to subscribers and potential subscribers. This is to avoid "bad surprises". Most list owners don't know or care about the "Stats=" keyword, and may be unpleasantly surprised if, after setting up the list so that membership and archives are private, they discover that just about anyone can find out who is on the list with the STATS command. >Extended statistics apparently take a lot of CPU time, so perhaps the >same issue bears on the availability of even normal statistics? Extended statistics no longer exist, so this is not an issue. Eric