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In article <2ocg34$ioc@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> bdienes@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Bruce Dienes) writes:
>>I have a question about making SCREEN-L a uni-directional newsgroup.  If 
>>bit.listserv.screen-l were created as a "read-only" newsgroup, where SCREEN-L 
>>messages were posted on it, but not vice versa, what happens when someone 
>>posts a message on bit.listserv.screen-l?

>We had a long discussion about this amongst the QUAKER-P list owners.
>The one-way post as is can cause a lot of confusion as it does not
>affect the netnews group.  People post to Netnews in response to someone
>on the list, but the person on the list will never see it.

Now I get it.  Thanks for the clarification, Bruce!

>We solved this one by making it a moderated group, with the listserv
>list as the moderator.  The list is set to SEND=Private, so you have to
>be subscribed to post.  Any posts by non-subscribers are rejected with
>an automatic listserv message saying they cannot post if they are not
>subscribed to QUAKER-P.  Any posts sent to QUAKER-P by subscribers are
>automatically relayed to NetNews by the list, and since the list is the
>moderator, it is posted.  (Thanks to Jim for this elegant solution!)

Interesting.  The only problem I see with this (and the reason I keep SCREEN-L 
set SEND=Public) is the trouble LISTSERV has recognizing a subscriber's 
slightly different e-mail addresses.  Many subscribers have multiple e-mail 
addresses and some might accidently or unknowingly send mail to a list from an 
address other than the one they're subscribed under.

E.g., I'm subscribed to SCREEN-L under jbutler@ua1vm.ua.edu.  Let's say  
I send mail from jbutler@ua1vm.bitnet.  If SEND=Private, LISTSERV will reject 
the mail.

I ran into this problem frequently when SCREEN-L was set to Private, so I 
changed it back to Public.

>Full moderation by actual humans was just too much work for us to
>consider... 

Yeah, I agree.  I wonder if there's some compromise to this whole 
moderated/private deal....?

Thanks very much for the suggestion.