Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribers accessing private list archives

2011-08-20 Thread Richard Damon
On 8/20/11 12:24 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: But as I implied at least in the reply referenced above, if you set the list's unsubscribe_policy to Yes, even a users confirmed unsubscribe is not effective until approved by an admin/moderator so this can be used to prevent users from unsubscribing, but

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribers accessing private list archives

2011-08-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 8/19/11 6:41 PM, Richard Damon wrote: > Perhaps you could create a dummy subscription that you give people the > information for. That way you could give people the password for that > subscription. Just need to watch to make sure no one plays with its > settings. And the email address, but t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribers accessing private list archives

2011-08-19 Thread Richard Damon
On 8/19/11 9:36 AM, Prietz, Ian wrote: Hi, I help manage a series of mailing lists. It is currently configured for me to manually subscribe users. We do not offer the subscribers the opportunity to manage their own subscription...they are required to be a part of this list. We do not have pas

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribers accessing private list archives

2011-08-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
Geoff Shang wrote: >On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Prietz, Ian wrote: > >> I am looking for a way to give subscribers a generic password that would >> authenticate them to be able to view the archives (so they can revisit >> any past messages). Note, I do not want them to be able to access their >> subsc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribers accessing private list archives

2011-08-19 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Prietz, Ian wrote: I am looking for a way to give subscribers a generic password that would authenticate them to be able to view the archives (so they can revisit any past messages). Note, I do not want them to be able to access their subscriber settings to be able to unsu

[Mailman-Users] Subscribers accessing private list archives

2011-08-19 Thread Prietz, Ian
Hi, I help manage a series of mailing lists. It is currently configured for me to manually subscribe users. We do not offer the subscribers the opportunity to manage their own subscription...they are required to be a part of this list. We do not have passwords setup for subscribers, so they do