Re: [Mailman-Users] hide lists from listinfo page only (leave onadmin page)

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 10:12:48 -0700 Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> wrote:

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..... for name in listnames:(but not in notshowns)

Thank you. I just started learning python, so I wanted to find out if I am on the right track first. I have spent 2 hours on these few lines of code, but have not got it to work yet. I tried to run the listinfo.py file alone to debug and got the following message (either running the original file that came with the package or what I have modified):

python /var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 25, in ? from Mailman import mm_cfg ImportError: No module named Mailman

What did I miss?

Presumably this is pseudocode. It's not Python. Python might be

for name in listnames: if name in notshowns: continue

...

 mlist = MailList.MailList(name, lock=0)
    if mlist.advertised:
        if mm_cfg.VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW
         mlist.web_page_url.find(hostname) == -1:
            # List is for different identity of this host - skip it.
            continue
        else:
            advertised.append((mlist.GetScriptURL('listinfo'),
                               mlist.real_name,
                               mlist.description))

...

There may be other ways to do this that don't require maintenance of a separate list. E.g., you could modify admin.py to display all lists regardless of the setting of advertised. Then lists with advertised set to No would be displayed on the admin overview but not the listinfo overview.

This is a great idea, I will test it out as well.

Also, what is the goal? If it is simply to avoid 'clutter' on the listinfo overview but still allow 'one click' access to the admin page, then you may be on the right track, but if you are trying to actually 'hide' the existence or name of the lists, anyone can go to the admin overview page and see them.

Tha goal is to avoid clutter and subscription attempts. I think modify the admin.py file as you suggested might be a better option. Maybe require authentication to access the admin page.

Thanks a lot.

Xiaoyan