At 02:33 11/17/98 -0400, Bret Diamond said:
|You raise an interesting issue.  We are sub=by-owner simply because we
|wanted some say in who could subscribe.  While it is a lot of work
|right now, and we are in fact rejecting very few, the open
|subscription command seems problematic simply because they would be
|signed up before we realized who they were, and then we would have to
|delete them "against their will" as opposed to simply not letting them
|join in the first place.  If I'm missing something here, please let me know.

Is the glass half-empty or -full?  An alternative would be:

* SUBSCRIPTION= OPEN,CONFIRM
* DEFAULT-OPTIONS= REVIEW


Then as the mood strikes:

QUITE DEL listname [log in to unmask]
QUIET SET listname NOREVIEW FOR *@*