[Mailman-Developers] Exposing not advertised lists via nntp archiver

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jul 15, 2012, at 12:26 AM, Alexander Sulfrian wrote:

>There are mailinglists with a pubic archive but that not be advertised
>by the server. The nntp archiver now have to supply a list of all
>available archives. If this list does not contain a mailing list, in
>most news clients you do not have a chance to subscribe to that group and
>read the posts.
>
>How to solve that? The only possibility I could think of uses the
>filter mechanism of the available newsgroups. The clients could supply
>a regexp like filter. I would implement a mechanism, that shows
>unadvertized lists with an archive only if the supplied filter is
>equal to the newsgroup name. Any other idea?

'Advertised' lists are kind of a funny middle ground between private and
public.  They are public lists but don't show up on the overview page.

One way to think of this in a mm3 world is that advertisement is purely a
function of the web ui.  For all intents and purposes then, this flag has no
impact on public vs. private, so it can be ignored.  If it's a public list,
then a user should be able to subscribe to the newsgroup, even if it's
unadvertised.  If the list admin really wants to prevent unauthorized access
to the newsgroup, then she needs to make it a private list (in which case,
authenticated users with the proper permission should be able to read the
list).

At least, that's my current thinking, but I'm certainly open to other
opinions.   I almost wish we could just get rid of the advertised flag.

-Barry
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