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

[Joshua Cranmer]

On 7/14/2012 6:26 PM, Alexander Sulfrian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a conceptional problem:
>
> 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?

You could enable the newsgroups only if a user has authenticated.

-- 
Joshua Cranmer
News submodule owner
DXR coauthor