So you're now the administrator of a GSB mailing list. Choose whether your list membership is publicly viewable Choose whether messages are automatically mailed to the list or held for your approval Choose whether messages to the list are archived and, if so, who can see the archives Manage your list's membership All administrative functions for a list are managed on the web. This page goes over many of the options provided by the mailman software, but there are dozens more. Please take a little while to page through the options and click on the help links when necessary. This may not completely eliminate the loop, but at least everyone on the list isn't subject to it.
Administrative access requires a password.
One of the first things you should do upon receiving your list is to take firm control of it by changing the password. The password change form is at the bottom of the general options page. Be sure to pick a password that's easy for you to remember but difficult for someone else to guess. If you do not want their membership to be automatic, check one of the approval options on the privacy options page. On the privacy options page, you can choose to let anyone view the membership from the listinfo page, restrict the list membership to list members, or lock it so you are the only one who can view the membership list.