Re: I found the answer!
- From: Mike Freeman <k7uij@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:46:54 -0400 (EDT)
Don:
Why would you not want the list archives public? People might find the
information useful. And I would submit that gratuitously ragging on
companies wouldn't be useful list behavior anyway.
Mike Freeman
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Don Bishop wrote:
> Hi Gail,
>
> Thanks for checking it out. That's really good to know. Once you're
> registered it's a little harder to check out these kinds of things, so I
> really appreciate it.
>
> I'd really like to see the archives only available to list members, and it
> would be nice if the server were smart enough to figure out that a member is
> accessing
> the archives so they wouldn't have to register. But, this might require
> cookies and such. I'll look into it though, and thanks again.
>
> Don
>
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 05:02:00 EDT, Gailselfridge@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Don:
> I didn't have to register to look at the optacon-l archives. What I had to do
> was this. I had to go to www.freelists.org/archives/optacon-l/ and then I was
> presented with an index of the messages with links to each. I could read down
> the index and press enter on the link to any message. That's how it works. As
> administrator, you might be able to make it so that we had to sign in to view
> the messages and then you could check to make sure we're subscribed, and if
> I'm right about that then I'm sure you could make it an automated procedure,
> but you'd have to read more about your own privileges to know that, and since
> only members to the list would know how to read the archives and since they're
> not anything that couldn't be read by any curious person, you might not want
> to
> bother with that, but the signup thingy is for creating a list. I'm a list
> moderator on smartgroups and I had to get someone to help me set that one up
> and
> then I had to read a lot of information over there until I got it straight,
> so it looks to me like freelists might just be easier to work with.
> Gail
>
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