On Sun, 28 Apr 1996, Randall S. Winchester wrote:
> > > Here's a question: Should list members be able to see the list via a
> > > 'lists' command? Right now, [no]advertise forbids them from seeing
> > > the list if they match. Thoughts?
> >
> > If somebody is on the list, there's no reason that it shouldn't show up
> > for them when they do give a lists command. It seems silly to not let it
> > show up.
> >
> > OTOH, the person may think the list is a "public" list and may tell others
> > about it just because it shows up in the lists setting.
> >
> > How about this? Adding a show_lists config setting. When set to yes,
> > it'll show the list to list members regardless of the
> > advertise/noadvertise setting and when set to no, it'll stick solely to
> > the advertise/noadvertise without regard to whether the person is a list
> > member.
>
> This would be good from the standpoint that if show_lists=yes, majordomo could
> do less work by not having to check if the requestor was a member of the list.
What do you mean? The whole point of adding show_lists would be if the
requestor was a member of the list. If show_lists was set to no then no
checking would be done and standard advertise rules would apply. If it was
set to yes then standard advertise rules would apply to NON-members.
Any ideas on this proposal?
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