Utilities: List Settings: Discussion Forum Interface: New Subscriber Requirements

Restrict Member Options

This setting determines whether your members are allowed to set various membership options, such as whether or not they'd like to receive the messages in digest form.

By default, lists created as email marketing or announcement lists are set to be restricted, and discussion lists are not.

On an email marketing or announcement list, these member options often do not apply. For instance, if you are sending out one announcement per week, it does not make sense for members to be able to set their membership to receive a daily digest.

In such a case, you may want to disable the member's ability to set their own options. The options will no longer appear in the ListManager discussion forum interface for joining and "your settings", and email commands to set them will be rejected.

Ask Subscribers for Name

When a member joins using the ListManager discussion forum interface, ListManager can ask the person for their name. This option allows you to require a name, to make the name optional, or to not ask for their name at all. By default, this setting is set to "Ask for name when joining, but make it optional".

Note: If joining by email is allowed, this setting has no impact, because there is no way to require a name if people can join by email. If you want to always have member names, you should also set your mailing list to not allow joining by email, so that people must use the ListManager web interface to join. See Utilities: List Settings: New Subscriber Policy: Security.

Note that if the name field is blank on a web subscription, but reply to a confirmation message, ListManager will automatically use the name in the From: field (if available), or from an email posting to the list. This will not overwrite any preexisting names.

Require Password

When a member joins using the ListManager discussion forum interface, ListManager can ask the person to pick a personal password. A personal password is useful for mailing lists where security is important. If no password is defined for a user, then other people can enter the discussion forum interface as that person by typing in their email address. Requiring each user to have a personal password adds considerable security to your mailing list.

This option allows you to require a password, to make the password optional or to not ask for a password at all.

By default, this option is set to "Do not ask for password at all".

If you allow joining by email and you set Require Password to "yes", ListManager will generate a random numeric password for members who subscribe by email and send it.

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