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?