I can understand your point but I still think this should be optional  
and I will try to explain why.

The list is an "announcement only" and the risk of getting spammed  
seems a bit over exaggerated. The lists purpose is to make it possible  
for union members to get fast information from their organisation. All  
messages will have a bottom banner explaining how to end the  
subscription pointing to a web page with easy instructions.

Since most of them access the list from their home PCs, the idea of  
having a time limit to confirm the subscription doesn't appeal to them.  
We have had some criticism about that. Many of them do not access their  
e-mail on a daily basis and sometimes a week or more goes by between  
their on line occasions.

I have also experienced other lists with web interfaces that do not  
require subscription confirmation, for instance  
<a href="/scripts/wa-community.exe?LOGON=A3%3D9907%26L%3DLSTOWN-L%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D63326%26B%3D--%26T%3Dtext%252Fplain%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%3B%2520name%3D%2522BDY.TXT%2522%26N%3DBDY.TXT" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a>, and was just seeking to find out if we  
had made some mistakes when configuring our list.

So I still wonder, can we do it?

Goeran  

-----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
Från: Pete-Weiss [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Skickat: den 19 juli 1999 14:25
Till: LSTOWN-L
Kopia: Pete-Weiss
Ämne: Re: Subscribers confirmation


There may be a parm somewhere, but  LISTSERV(R) was designed that WEB
interfaces require the email confirmation.

This is both a courtesy to your existing subscribers as well as
prevention of third-party spam.

If you manage to turn OFF confirmation, please let us know which lists  
so
that *I* can unsubscribe.

/Pete

At 02:53 07/19/1999 Monday , G ran Larsson wrote:
 >We have an announcement list with a web interface for subscription.  
The
 >strange thing is that although we have
 >
 >*Subscription= Open
 >
 >without the Confirm command, subscribers still get the confirmation
 >mail and have to send in an OK to get on the list.
 >
 >Why is that? Can anyone help us? We use Listserv 1.8d.