* On 24/04/06 12:23 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote:
| Odhiambo Washington wrote:
| >
| >Today, my boss, in one of his crazy thoughts, asked me if it's possible
| >(with Mailman or other MLM) to have a mailing list that would have the
| >following restrictions:
| >
| >1. The list will be archived
| >2. The list admin can search all archives
| >3. A list member is only allowed to search through the archives, but
| > can only view what s/he posted, not what other members posted!
|
|
| You definitely can't do this with the existing Mailman pipermail
| archives. It probably is possible to modify Mailman/Cgi/private.py to
| restrict viewing such that if the user has authorized as a member
| rather than as an admin, the user can only retrieve pages for which
| she/he is the author. I don't know of any attempts to do this with
| pipermail or any external archiver.
Fine, so it's doable, only if he commissions the work and funds it, yes?
;-)
| You didn't ask for criticism of the idea itself so I won't offer any.
Since I did not even imagine the possibility.
I'd be happy, however, to hear you "critique" the idea. Thanks.
cheers
- wash
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