On Thu, 19 May 1994 09:13:45 EDT John Hannum <[log in to unmask]> said: >Hmmmm. Eric, thoughts? What can I say... This is all a matter of balance. If you make your list confidential, jerks won't find out about it, but on the other hand neither will the people you may be trying to attract to enrich the discussions. It really depends on what the list is about. Setting the list to private also blocks out the bozos, but alienates the countless users who have to depend on incompetently managed systems for mail. I can name at least one public e-mail account provider whose system gives you a different userid every time you log in, and whose staff is not really interested in solving this problem. Of course users have the option of switching to another provider, my point was just to show that even people whose job is to run large-scale mail servers may not be able or willing to set them up properly... Eric