Ugh! That one was entirely my fault... I actually had used the who_access
parameter with "closed", but it hadn't worked for me (and that's why I wrote
thinking it must be another parameter I needed instead). Anyway, I just figured
the source of the problem I had... I left out an "=". Shame on me.
Thanks Chip! Thanks Roger! I'm back in business!
Steve
> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:07:01 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Chip Old <fold@bcpl.net>
>
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:39 -0400, Steve Rifkin wrote:
>
> > I've got a majordomo list and would like to do one of two things.
> >
> > Either
> >
> > 1) prevent ANY users (on or off the list) from using "who" to receive
> > back a list of users on a list
>
> who_access = closed
>
> > or
> >
> > 2) prevent users not on a list or not in the restrict_post file from
> > obtaining the list users when using the who command.
>
> who_access = list
>
> That will allow only list members to use the who command. However it will
> not allow addresses in your restrict_post file to use who.
>
> > In other words... for this specific list, I'd like to know how to do
> > both 1) and 2) above to either unadvertise the list for everybody or for
> > non-list, non-restrict_post users).
> >
> > I read on a much earlier post (to the comp.mail.list-admin.software
> > list) that a user named Dirk created a patch to config_parse.pl that
> > utilizes a new variable called private_nowho. This patch is supposed to
> > disable who completely if private_nowho is set in the config file for
> > the list.
>
> "closed" already disables who. I'm not familiar with that patch, but
> if you just want to disable who for that list, you don't need the patch.
>
> --
> Chip Old (Francis E. Old) E-Mail: fold@bcpl.net
> Manager, BCPL Network Services Phone: 410-887-6180
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