Re: Insulin pumpers headers

"Patty" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 2 May 2006 05:38:32 +0000 (UTC), Blammo wrote:
>
>> On 01 May 2006, - Blammo entered spamcop and left
>> news:[email protected]:
>>
>>> Or: confirmation is turned off, subscriptions are manually 
>>> added by the
>>> admin.
>>>
>>
>> Further reading leads me to believe that they are using the 
>> "approve"
>> option...
>>
>> Approval ========
>> When Majordomo requests your approval for something, it sends 
>> you a message
>> that includes a template of the approval message; if you 
>> concur, you simply
>> need to replace "PASSWORD" in the template with your list 
>> password, and
>> send the template line back to Majordomo.
>> ...
>> You can approve any "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" request, 
>> regardless of
>> whether Majordomo has requested this approval, with an 
>> "approve" command.
>> Thus, you can subscribe or unsubscribe people from your list 
>> without them
>> having to send anything to Majordomo; just send an appropriate 
>> "approve
>> PASSWORD subscribe LIST ADDRESS" or "approve PASSWORD 
>> unsubscribe LIST
>> ADDRESS" command off to Majordomo.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> In addition, the following is from the majordomo config 
>> file...
>>
>> 'subscribe_policy',
>> "One of three values: open, closed, auto; plus an optional
>> modifier: '+confirm'.  Open allows people to subscribe 
>> themselves to
>> the list. Auto allows anybody to subscribe anybody to the list 
>> without
>> maintainer approval. Closed requires maintainer approval for 
>> all
>> subscribe requests to the list.  Adding '+confirm', ie,
>> 'open+confirm', will cause majordomo to send a reply back to 
>> the
>> subscriber which includes a authentication number which must 
>> be sent
>> back in with another subscribe command.",
>>
>
> I believe we must be set to closed in some manner.  The list 
> maintainer
> must subscribe NEW people.  You cannot subscribe yourself to 
> the list
> without first supplying a profile and request to the 
> Administration.  So,
> would not 'open+confirm' negate that setup by allowing someone 
> to subscribe
> themself?
>
> Just trying to understand this.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Patty

Open +confirm, I believe, was simply an example.  It looked like 
it could be used with any of the options.  e.g. option +confirm. 
So it could be used wtih any of the options.

Please read the description references for what 'confirmed 
subscriptions' are.  You don't sound as though you've read them 
at all?

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