Message reading
These are settings for message reading on the web.
The table below explains the fields available on the Message Reading page:
| Field Name | Description |
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List Visibility |
This defines whether or not this list is accessible in the Aurea List Manager discussion forum interface. The options are:
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Allow Visitors to Read Archives |
This defines whether to allow visitors to visit your mailing list and read your archives. Allowing visitors
means that the discussion forum interface is going to allow non-members to read and search the past mailings
on your list. They can also get information about your mailing list. A visitor cannot contribute
to a mailing list, and cannot receive mailing list contributions via email. By default, this feature
is set to Allowing visitors is often a good way for prospective members to get a taste of what a mailing list is about. They are able to read past postings to see if the mailing list interests them. If it does, they can apply for membership Allowing visitors is also useful for specialized mailing lists, where the information is not confidential,
but you do not want just anyone joining. For example, a mailing list discussing Internal Telecommunications
standards wants outsiders to be able to read the discussion but, you may want the mailing list to
be |
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Enable Archive Searching |
This option determines whether archived messages are full text indexed and thus text-searchable. By default,
this feature is set to If you do fully allow text indexing of the archives, members are able to perform very fast word searches of the archives of your mailing list. However, the full text index does consume a great deal of space and may not be applicable to all mailing lists. If enabled, Aurea List Manager removes all the punctuation and numbers, and creates an index based on the remaining individual words. Numbers are not indexed. A word is anything over 3 characters and up to 30 characters. Aurea List Manager does not index HTML code or attachments. If a message is received in multipart, only the text is indexed. If a message is received with only HTML, the HTML is converted to text and then indexed. Indexing does not slow down other Aurea List Manager processes because it has the lowest priority. Anything else Aurea List Manager needs to do, like sending messages, gets done first, interrupting the message indexing. When the Aurea List Manager server is completely idle and has nothing else to do, the indexing resumes. |
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Make Available as a Newsgroup? |
This setting determines whether this mailing list is available as a newsgroup. By default this setting
is set to Aurea List Manager is capable of feeding your mailing list as a secure, private newsgroup. If your users have Netscape or Internet Explorer 4 (or newer) they can access the newsgroup with the URL
If your users do not have Netscape or Internet Explorer 4 (or newer) they can access your group by defining your Aurea List Manager as their default newsgroup server. For example, Forte Agent and Internet Explorer 3 use this method. Note Aurea List Manager implements all the same security for newsgroups as apply to mailing lists. Thus, if
your list is set to If a user is using Netscape and they try to access a group which does not allow visitors, Netscape automatically prompts the user for their name (which is their email address) and their password (if they have one). Aurea List Manager is going to then determine if they are a valid user and if they are allowed to read the group. If they are not, they do not get any further access to the group. If they are, Aurea List Manager is going to determine for which groups this name/password combination is valid and allow them access to these groups. If they try to access a group they are not authenticated for, Netscape is going to ask again for a name and password. Most news browsers do not ask for a name or password as needed, but rather ask for this information as part of the static configuration of the news browser. Agent and Internet Explorer work this way. If they are using one of these browsers, they are going to need to enter their email address as their newsgroup name and their list password into their news browser, which grants them access. One problem with these browsers is that if the user has different passwords on different lists, Aurea List Manager only lets the user into the lists for which their name/password combination is valid. Netscape is the only browser we know of which asks for name/passwords as needed. We recommend that most users use Netscape for accessing Aurea List Manager newsgroups, as this is currently the only newsgroup browser that supports the latest security, multi-server and full text searching features in the NNTP protocol. Aurea List Manager also allows posting via a news browser. Postings via news browsers are treated exactly as if they came in via email. They are subject to all the same moderation, membership and security requirements that normal email is subject to. If a posting via a news browser is rejected, the poster is going to receive notification of this via an email message. Aurea List Manager also supports newsgroup full text searching. At current time, only Netscape supports this
feature. To use it, right-click on the newsgroup name, and choose Note Aurea List Manager includes a demonstration version of the newsgroups support. Long messages are truncated and each message viewed through the newsgroups interface is going to have a disclaimer footer appended to it. If you decide that you want to have the full Aurea List Manager newsgroups support, you can upgrade to include this feature. Contact your account executive. If you do not know who your account executive is, or for other queries, contact us through our website. |