On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Derek Peschel <dpeschel(a)u.washington.edu> wrote: ] > Um, Derek, you're gonna unsubscribe this, right? ] ] I just did, and they weren't subscribed in the first place. ] ] I wonder if I can change the configuration so that only subscribed people ] can send things to the list? Is that really a good idea? ] ] -- Derek One possible problem is that I often stumble across somebody needing advice or having some interesting thing available, and it often tell them just to send mail to this list. Heck, I just got through telling this to the guy maintaining the US EPA computer recycling web page. He replied, agreeing to mention it. (But it looks like he has not yet done it.) Here's the (hideous) URL: http://epainotes1.rtpnc.epa.gov:7777/r10/owcm.nsf/d60e13abe847c4cb882564de0… Seems like the choice is between being open to spam, being less friendly to outsiders, or requiring constant work by a moderator. How about making this list open to posting only from subscribers, and having some secondary list address (ie: another list) that is left totally open, and anything interesting gets forwarded from that to the real list. Only one person at a time need subscribe to the secondary list, and act as the forwarder. So Derek wouldn't get overworked, and we could take turns on "door-duty" just by changing who subscribes to that. It's clunky, but it's the best idea I've had in the past sixty seconds. :-) Bill.