On 8/19/11 9:36 AM, Prietz, Ian wrote:
Hi,
I help manage a series of mailing lists. It is currently configured for me to
manually subscribe users. We do not offer the subscribers the opportunity to
manage their own subscription...they are required to be a part of this list. We
do not have passwords setup for subscribers, so they do not have to do the
periodic password updates.
I also have the lists setup to privately archive.
I am looking for a way to give subscribers a generic password that would
authenticate them to be able to view the archives (so they can revisit any past
messages). Note, I do not want them to be able to access their subscriber
settings to be able to unsubscribe themselves. I would almost like to just have
everyone be given a generic password (that I could give out upon request), so
they can view the private archives. That's all.
Any ideas? Our Mailman access is restricted just to accessing our mailing lists
administration pages on the web. Our service is hosted...I do not have direct
access to the server.
Thanks,
Ian
Perhaps you could create a dummy subscription that you give people the
information for. That way you could give people the password for that
subscription. Just need to watch to make sure no one plays with its
settings.
Also, they are still able to unsubscribe themselves, as they can get an
unsubscription message sent to their email and then use it to confirm
the unsubscription.
Mailman is setup to allow people to unsubscribe (and a hosted service
isn't going to let you change that), if you want to not allow this, your
best bet is with social/political rules with appropriate penalties for
violations.
--
Richard Damon
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