> is there a less risky way to allow proffessionals into our group without: > > 1. creating list subcatagories (this seemed to recieve some critism > from some people in the list based on prior experiances Well, this really *is* what you're asking for :-) > 2. to subscribe such a person to the list and have them set to NOMAIL > (which they themselves can override)? > > I guess what I want is a subscription option for such people so that > they would only be allowed to post to the list, but not recieve mail > from the list. Is there any possible way to do this securely? Technical solution: You could simply say "Send=Public" and "Subscription=By_Owner" (and of course, make notebooks private). That would result in anyone being able to post. Or if you wanted to limit the second group as well, you could make a second list, say PRO-FOLKS, and say "Send=Private,(PRO-FOLKS)". That way they could join PRO-FOLKS and thus be allowed to post, without being members of your discussion list. But ... all of this sounds sort of impractical on a deeper level. How are these people supposed to make a reasonable contribution to the list if they don't know what the context is that they're dropping their contributions into? It would make more sense for them to mail a contribution to you (say, after you'd sent them a focused question), and allow you to re-post it to the list with some context added. Norm