>Nathan,
>> Under 1.8d you <can> serve private notebooks on the web.

Paul Wayper:
>Can you tell us under what conditions this will occur (list header settings,
>web server settings, etc)?

You don't have to do much special -- if the Notebook= header line specifies
notebooks should be private then LISTSERV will ask for an address/password
pair to validate you before you are granted access.

>... I'd like is to be able to set some of our lists Confidential= Service,
>and have those check the user's locale ... before allowing them to see those
>pages.

Access is controlled by password, which is fine by me.  Checking the browser
settings to determine a locale seems easy to crack, but perhaps I didn't
quite understand what you were getting at.

>In essence what we'd like is for the browser to offer the same level of
>security as the mail commands.

Well, it pretty much does, but only by use of a password.  Though
Confidential= Service does have implications with the browser code:
If Confidential= Yes, then the existence of list archives will be "hidden"
from the machine's main archive page -- you have to know the exact URL in
order to access the archives.  If Confidential= Service, then the existence
of the archives WILL be noted on the machine's main archive page, though the
list itself won't be advertised to the LISTSERV backbone servers nor will
it appear in CataList.

Bill