Lyris User's Guide
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Visibility of the existence of the mailing list
Table of Contents
· Introduction
· Email Commands
· Web Interface for Users
· Server Administrator
· Site Administrator
· List Administrator
· Other Topics
· · Security Considerations
· · Security Issues Relating to Members
· · · Access to the list archives
· · · Access to the list of members
· · · Access to Subscribe to the Mailing List
· · · Steps to restrict false impersonations
· · · Security Features for Posting Messages
· · · Access to unsubscribe and change settings
· · · Visibility of the existence of the mailing list
· · · Web Interface Access
· · · Overview of Lyris List Manager Posting Security
· · · Security Considerations of the From: field
· · · Security Recommendations for Announcement lists
· · · How Lyris List Manager Determines the Identity of the Person Posting
· · Lyris List Manager Mail Merge
· · The Lyris List Manager command line
· · Modifying lyris.plc
· Add-On Packages
· Installing and Upgrading
· Appendix
· Frequently Asked Questions

Visibility of the existence of the mailing list

When you create a mailing list, its existence is visible in several places.

1) Within each topic of the web interface, the mailing lists for that topic are displayed. Topics may be "hidden", so that all the mailing lists in that topic are automatically hidden as well.

2) With a single topic, each mailing list can be "hidden" as well. If someone already knows that the list exists (by some other means that Lyris List Manager telling them) then they can access the web interface for that mailing list by using the "enter=listname" option on the Web interface URL.

3) The "lists" email command displays all the mailing lists for a site. If a mailing list has been "hidden", it will not appear in the output of the "lists" command.

4) In the global directories of mailing lists, such as, "tile.net" and "www.liszt.com". The "global" mailing list setting determines whether a mailing list should be visible in these global directories or not.

5) Basic list information. If your list is not "hidden", then non-members are allowed to get basic information about the mailing list, such as its name, who is the administrator and other things believed to be helpful to non-members to decide whether they should join the mailing list. You can prevent non-members from being able to obtain this information by changing the "allow info" mailing list setting.

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