Visibility of the Existence of the Mailing List

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

1. Within All Forums of the Discussion Forum Interface, the mailing lists for that site are displayed. Lists may be "hidden" so they are not visible here. See Utilities: List Settings: Users' Web Interface.

2. 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.

3. 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 in Utilities: List Settings: Users' Web Interface: General.