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Subject: Re: advertise/noadvertise
From: Jeffrey Goldberg <J . Goldberg @ Cranfield . ac . uk>
Organization: Cranfield University Computer Centre
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 14:49:31 +0100 (BST)
To: Bob Ess <bess @ tddtx . fujitsu . com>
Cc: Majordomo-Users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <352B6EE5.9AB98E75@tddtx.fujitsu.com>
Reply-to: Jeffrey Goldberg <J . Goldberg @ Cranfield . ac . uk>

On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Bob Ess wrote:

> I want all users in domain foo.foobar.com to be able to 'lists' and 'who
> lists'. I do not want anybody outside of domain foo.foobar.com to be able to
> do anything.

First of all advertise only effects the "lists" command, and not "who".
I strongly recommend that you close of "who" for all.  If someone wants a
who they can write to the list adminsitrator for it.

> 
> In the .config file I have
> 
> advertise           <<  END
> foo.foobar.com
> END

Make that

advertise             << END
/foo\.foobar\.com/i
END


> And I have no entries in the noadvertise stanza. Nonetheless, anyone outside
> of our domain can still do 'lists' and 'who lists'.

Put something in the noadvertise.  something like

/./

will do the job.

So then it is noadvertise to all, but advertise to foo.foobar.com

-j
 

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