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

[Xiaoyan Ma]

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