Hi all,
I cannot seem to find a way to let anyone (ie including non-sr.ht
account holders) subscribe to a mailing list while denying browse
access to non-subscribers.
In the settings page of a mailing list, I would expect a button
like "Subscribe" on top of "browse/reply/post/moderate" options.
Or am I missing something obvious?
Thanks for any hint!
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Bastien
"browse" and "subscribe" are the same permission, because if you can do
one, you can do the other. If you could browse the mailing list, you
could just poll the archives to fetch new emails, and if you could
subscribe, then you can just roll your maildir into an archive.
I' going to assume Bastien wants to allow anyone to subscribe to the
mailing list, but only allow sr.ht users who are _also_ subscribers of
the list to browse.
I've seen mailinglist software, eg. GNU Mailman, which does distinguish
betwee browsing and subscription permissions, which allows for a
mailinglist to be subscribed to by anyone, but only those with elevated
permissions can browse the archives.
The big difference is that a subscriber only has messages from the
point in time they subscribe onward.
Thanks for your answer.
"Drew DeVault" <sir@cmpwn.com> writes:
> "browse" and "subscribe" are the same permission, because if you can do> one, you can do the other. If you could browse the mailing list, you> could just poll the archives to fetch new emails, and if you could> subscribe, then you can just roll your maildir into an archive.
I see today's equivalence of "browsable" and "subscribable" for lists,
but I'd like to allow non-sr.ht users to subscribe to a list *before*
they can browse it.
Put another way: what information should I share with non-sr.ht users
to let them subscribe to a list that only subscribers can browse?
In a standard mailman setup, I can share a link like this one:
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
WDYT?
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Bastien
On Tue Apr 6, 2021 at 8:33 AM EDT, Bastien wrote:
> I see today's equivalence of "browsable" and "subscribable" for lists,> but I'd like to allow non-sr.ht users to subscribe to a list *before*> they can browse it.
Yeah, this is deliberately not possible.
Drew DeVault transcribed 0.3K bytes:
> On Tue Apr 6, 2021 at 8:33 AM EDT, Bastien wrote:> > I see today's equivalence of "browsable" and "subscribable" for lists,> > but I'd like to allow non-sr.ht users to subscribe to a list *before*> > they can browse it.> > Yeah, this is deliberately not possible.
Will you please give the courtesy of justifying your WONTFIX.
Devan Carpenter <mail@dvn.me> writes:
> I' going to assume Bastien wants to allow anyone to subscribe to the> mailing list, but only allow sr.ht users who are _also_ subscribers of> the list to browse.
To be precise, I would like to allow anyone to subscribe to a mailing
list that is not browsable for non-subscribers. So I'd favor a fourth
access option "Subscribe" for the "Non-subscribers" category.
Whether they are sr.ht users or not should not make a difference.
Yes, that's the behavior of GNU Mailman.
I'm fine with any final decision about this, I was just a bit confused
by the current behavior (hence the patch.)