Turning Off Subscription warnings

[seanwilsonorg]

I have a mailing list that doesn't require people to subscribe. I just whitelist anyone who wants to post, after their first try. If they do want an email subscription, they can get it at yahoo or nabbly. Is there any way to turn off the subscription warnings when people log on or try to post. There are these immediate boxes and warnings that death will happen to them of they don't go to my list and subscribe.  

[GregChapman]

seanwilsonorg wrote

I have a mailing list that doesn't require people to subscribe.

I don't understand that! By definition a mail list requires a subscription. There may be a confusion over terminology.

A "mail list" means people opt to receive messages on a certain general topic via email. The term for "opting in" is "subscribe". Normally, members, (i.e. subscribers) of a mail list are also allowed to post.

I just whitelist anyone who wants to post, after their first try.

"White list" isn't an term used in Nabble. By default "Anyone" may post in Nabble. Are you saying you have changed the default settings?

If they do want an email subscription, they can get it at yahoo or nabbly.

I don't understand this. You now seem to be talking about a forum, not a mail list at all!

Is there any way to turn off the subscription warnings when people log on or try to post. There are these immediate boxes and warnings that death will happen to them of they don't go to my list and subscribe.

Again the terms you use do not match with those you will see on a Nabble forum. Can you explain, using the actual messages seen on your forum, about what feature you wish to change.

Maybe this post will help you:
http://support.nabble.com/Moderating-free-forum-td6873076.html#a6873871

[seanwilsonorg]

... here is what I meant. I have a mailing list at undergroundwiki.org. It's run by mailman software. However, I don't let people subscribe to the list, because my host has a limitation on the number of mails that go out. Instead, i subscribe other lists, like yahoo groups, google groups, freelists or Nabble. (Nabble seems to be the best. I just discovered it).   That makes it so I only have one mail going out to a "client." If people want to subscribe to the mails, they do so at the client sites (yahoo, google or nabble, etc.). Here is an example:http://undergroundwiki.org/doku.php?id=groups:critical_politicology:start 

Now, the problem. When people use Nabble, they get this warning that they must subscribe at the mother list (undergroundwiki.org) or they may lose their first born. I don't subscribe people there: I just whitelist them. Mailman has a way to allow posts from the whitelisted people, even though they are not subscribed. So, those whitelisted people can sent a message through, and it goes out to yahoo, google, nabble, where people are subscribed.

Does that make sense?

I just wanted to customize the Nabble page so that people are not warned of their duty to subscribe elsewhere.

[GregChapman]

Now I see your problem!

You have created a Nabble archive of your main mail list. This, in effect, makes Nabble a subscriber to your mail list.

Nabble now posts any messages it receives from your mail list to the Nabble archive and this is presented to the world as another Nabble forum. And there's the key. It's a forum.

People may opt to subscribe to the forum and they'll get copies of anything posted to it. They will be able to reply and post new messages - BUT (big BUT) messages will then be held by Nabble and they will get a message from Nabble that their message is pending (nothing about first born - whatever you may have been told! ). That will be because they are not subscribers to your mail list.

You could say that a Nabble mail list archive is primarily there to provide a way of accessing past posts to a mail list and some people may actually prefer posting via the web-based Nabble archive, but, as explained above, they will only be able to do this if they are subscribers to the parent list.

Because fundamentally, Nabble's service is that of providing a forum, i.e. a multi-level web-based discussion board - not  a single mail list, it does NOT operate like YahooGroups or Google Groups. You may conclude that Nabble is not what your looking for. Alternatively...

It might, in time, be seen as the ideal replacement for your current mail list, for the very reason that it is web-based and and can act as a host for multiple mail lists whose archives are all accessed through a single web interface. AND, unlike most forum software, it doesn't just send you notifications that someone has replied to you and invites you to visit the forum to respond. Instead it sends you the full text of the message and allows you to reply through your preferred mail program.

In short: there is no point in using Nabble to produce yet another circulation method for your mail list on top of Yahoo and Google - but you might want to consider replacing your current mail list server with Nabble.