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I have no plan to add a discussion group to this group. In view of that, do you still think it's a mistake to leave it open for viewing and for membership?

Personally, if it was my group, I'd have it Announcement-Only as you have, with access to the Directory and Member List disabled, and public I guess would be OK, as long as I have it setup so new applicants have to be approved, and also set a Pending Membership questionnaire notice so they can reply to let you know why they want to join.? That should help safeguard against most of the undesirables, as most of the times they don't bother replying to the questionnaire.? Another advantage of screening applicants is that IIRC, just like the Welcome notice that Pending Membership notice doesn't contain any boilerplate text.

For example, if I meet someone at a gig and they want to get announcements of my?gigs, could I not just invite them to join?

Yes, and that would be the preferable way since those folks don't get that questionnaire notice (since you invited them it is assumed they are legit), so as long as they accept the invitation they become members right away.? It's like DirectAdd in a sense but the difference is the member has to "push" the final button to become member instead of being added by you, so the onus is on them to actively do something to become a member, which also more-or-less verifies they are interested in joining.? Leave DirectAdd when you're dealing with someone maybe not computer-savvy, or having email problems, etc.? Invired members will get just the Welcome notice (from your group after accepting the invitation, they may also get a system generated notice beforehand if they had to create a new groups.io account)

Cheers,
Christos