Re: Request: Automatically make Subscribers into Authorized Users for private forums

Posted by mattengland on Oct 13, 2008; 6:00pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Request-Automatically-make-Subscribers-into-Authorized-Users-for-private-forums-tp1312563p1329717.html

Will <Nabble> wrote

Let me forward this to the team and we will think of a solution. But this is not a very high priority because it's mainly an infrequent convenience issue.

Ok.  fyi, here's where it gets annoying for me:

I susbcribe hundreds of email addresses to a private Nabble forum (which effectively makes it an email list).  In order to get every subscriber web-forum access, I have to, one by one, manually add each email address to the  'Authorized Users' list.  An extremely cumbersome endeavor for hundreds of email addresses, because the  'Authorized Users' form only allows you to add one account/email at a time--unlike the 'Add Subscribers' form which provides a text block to add a list of email addresses all at once.

Here's a potential comprimise: could the 'Authorized Users' form allow a "list" input of accounts/email addresses like the 'Add Subscribers' form does?  This would tremendously alleviate the heartache of manual entry of hundreds of email lists (I'd enter the list twice--once for email subscribers, once for forum subscribers).  Otherwise, I don't think I can feasibly manage my larger email lists via Nabble; it would just take too long and would be too error prone to enter by hand.