[Mailman-Developers] suggestions regarding announce only conf igurations

[Ken Manheimer]

On friday, Matteo wrote:

> i'm using mailman both for general lists and announce-only.  i can
> approximate a good announce only
> configuration by editing  html to hide things like the list submit
> address, etc, after turning them off
> but it would be wonderful to be able to semi-automatically create a
list
> that has this already done, by having the html turn off automatically
> when you deselect an option. another possibility would be to have

Mailman tends to emphasize configuration options for these kinds of
things.  For instance...

> the piece that was the most problematic was the subscriber list- we
dont
> want people to see a list of subscribers (or the possibility of a
list,
> even if they cant use it) it on an announce list, but if we hide the
> html, we need to create an html stub that contains the form post code.

Why not set the "Who can view subscription list" privacy option to "List
admin only"?  (It's on http://<site>/mailman/admin/<list>/privacy .)

Ken Manheimer
klm@digicool.com