Francoise Becker wrote: > >>Yes, and the *main* reason for using Confidential=Service is to have >>your list show up on the web index page, but not on CataList. > > I should probably have said "one of the main reasons". At any rate, > this has been the case for approximately 5 years. For the past 5 or > so years, people asking "how do I get the list to show up on the web > index but not on CataList?" have received the answer "use > Confidential=Service". The use of 'Confidential= Service' does not hide a list from non-local users. It hides the list from non-local users who submit the 'lists' command via email, but never visit the archives menu page. A review of our logs indicates that non-local requests for the archives menu page significantly outnumber email submissions of the 'lists' command from non-local addresses. Given this usage pattern, 'Confidential= Service' no longer means that the existence of the list is hidden from non-local users, it simply means that the list does not appear in CataList, nothing more, nothing less. > Among lists using Confidential=Service, I > can't tell you what ratio has no service area defined, but there are > quite a few, and if we were to change this now, a lot of lists would > be broken. The essence of this paragraph seems to be that implementation of the requested change would result in breakage for countless list owners who have followed your instructions. I can appreciate the potential impact, so I will modify my original request. Please provide an additional option for the 'Confidential=' keyword which will enable a list owner to configure a list so that it appears in the output of the 'lists' command for local users, but does not appear on the public archives menu page. -- Paul Russell Senior Systems Administrator University of Notre Dame