Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked,
| Vince Sabio, Alpha Listmom wrote:
|
| > (3) inform me whenever someone attempts
| > to REVIEW any of my mailing lists (I have my lists configured to
| > disallow such things, but I still like to know when they try),
|
| You made the above statement in reference to praise of lyris. I am not
| familiar with the phrase "review a mailing list" and I was wondering if
| you could expand on what that means, how it is detected and why it is
| undesirable.
The word "review" has different meanings for different list packages. Vince
appears to be referring to it as a command sent to certain listservers to
request a copy of the membership roster.
There was a time when few lists needed to disable that command; now many
do, because of the spam problem, and the rest have to allow only members
or privileged members to use it.
In other software the word is used differently: a member of an unmoderated
list is said to be on "review status" if his or her submissions are diverted
for moderation rather than being sent right out, either because he or she is
new to the list or because he or she has violated posting guidelines in the
past.
The ambiguities can be funny sometimes: once a member sent the following com-
mand to me (at an address that reaches my eyes and does not interpret com-
mands, but if I know what they mean I carry them out), apostrophes and all:
request '*out*'
Thinking it was a request to get out, but not being positive, I shut her
subscription off without purging it and wrote to her to ask for clarifica-
tion. She said no, she didn't want to unsub; she was trying to get a copy of
the membership roster. I turned her subscription back on, sent her the list
activity she had missed, and explained that I don't give the list out.
About two years later another member sent this:
request *out*
with the same words and the same asterisks but no apostrophes. So as before,
I shut her subscription off without purging it and asked her to elucidate,
telling her about the previous incident. She replied that no, she wasn't
trying to get the membership roster, she wanted to unsubscribe. So I thanked
her for getting back to me and purged her subscription.
