Glenn Darwin wrote:
> Modify the "HTML for the main list archive screen (listname.html)"  in
> the templates section.

Ok, I've found that in the default.html.  Is that the only thing which
needs to be modified?  Can that be done via the existing litowners web
(which I have never used) or must it be done by "putting" the modified
template in the listname.mailtpl?  I've done that lots of times, but
never for a WWW template (wouldn't have the faintest idea what I was
doing, so leave them strictly alone).

I noticed something about confidential lists in that template.  It is a
confidential list.  Does that make a difference?

Will modifying that allow a link to the list filelist/catalog, but leave
the standard PUT and GET for the filelist/catalog strictly alone?  When
a new file is added to the filelist/catalog it automatically appears
as link on the list web page, and when a file is deleted it automatically
disappears from the web page?

For the list "web page" (not the list archive, and not the filelist), will
change the template above allow the storing all the material from that,
currently at a totally independent address, on LISTSERV?  Don't want a
link, want that stuff stored as a "physical" part of the listname web page,
get rid of that other address and storage.

The situation is this.  This list has always had two listowners, one in the
profession of the list, and me.  The other listowner takes care of the
errors (except when she is away to conferences, vacation, etc.) and the odd
"help" message which she receives.  I take care of the archives, the
filelist, listname.mailtpl, and am the list editor (all postings are
edited, including header, 25 - 60 per day), doing it all by email.
Neither of us have ever messed with the LISTSERV listname page (we both
search the archives via email, we know how to do it (we are from VM/VMS,
BITNET/EARN era) and find email searching more convenient than the web
searching).  The list "home page," as she calls it, the one we want to get
rid of, is hosted as a page of the department of where she, the other
listowner, works.

She is now well past full Social Security full benefit age and is retiring,
though not as listowner.  However, she thinks we out to have a third
listowner as "backup."  Now, there wouldn't really be anything for this
person to do, but she has worked as a webpage designer.  So, what I was
thinking, was that she could tackle all this web stuff that neither of
us have had time, or really wanted, to go into.  But she doesn't know
anything about LISTSERV.  Hence my questions.  I've trying to get
info to give her.

Douglas Winship  [log in to unmask]