On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Listserv Admin wrote: > The problem: > > A new administration policy governing access to student information is > forthcoming which will prohibit an instructor who owns a list from having > access to the list of students subscribed. In order to be in compliance > with this new policy I thought I could create a Super List for the > instructor that he or she would own and use a Sub-List=xxxxx-s for > students I add which the instructor would not own. For the record, I > don't think it is appropriate that an owner of any list should be > restricted from the subscriber list, but my hands are tied. At any rate, > instructors have been informed, and they are furious because they use > their class mailing lists in ways unanticipated by management which > requires access to their subscriber list (a long story left out here). > > I have been asked to explore other technical solutions that would keep > everyone happy and be in compliance with new policy. I can only think of > three solutions when I rack my brain, and I don't think the first two are > possible without access to Listserv's source code and I don't like the > third. They are: > > 1. Find a way for Listserv, when presented with a REVIEW request for these > lists, to parse the subscriber list and omit any entry with the word > ":PRIVATE:". (This will leave the instructor with access and the > instructor can operate as before with limited REVIEW output.) Why not set REVIEW=PRIVATE, make yourself, not the instructors, owners of these lists, and for each confidential subscription, set its subscription options to CONCEAL. This would accomplish exactly what you want, right?