I started the process of creating a group just this morning. It still says "archives", not "messages". I saw nothing called "visibility", possibly because when I wrote this message I hadn't completed the process of creating the group. I see visibility under settings now, which of course wasn't available before creating the group.
I did a further search in the archives / messages of this list and found a post of yours from Feb 27 that said private would allow members, but not non-members, to view files, so that's what I picked.
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On 03/24/2018 02:31 PM, Shal Farley wrote:
Holly,
> What I want is what I have on Yahoo:? a publicly listed group with
> members having access to ... old messages ... but people who are not
> group members cannot view the ... old messages,
Under Visibility choose "Group listed in directory, private messages". That's in the Privacy section of your group's Settings page.
Note that you'll be warned that once you make your messages private you cannot later make them public again. That is true with Yahoo Groups as well.
> but people who are not group members cannot view the files (photos,
> text files, etc).
The access controls for other areas of your group are further down the Settings page, in the Features section. Of those only the Wiki and the Calendar can be given public (non-member) read-only access. Chats, Database, Files, and Photos cannot be made available to non-members.
> Is this considered "private" or "public"?? I would have thought it
> would be private, but the wording is ambiguous - a publicly listed
> group with public archives might mean either that non-members can see
> the archives or that archives are available only to members.
I don't see how that's ambiguous, but in any case the wording there has recently been changed, replacing "archives" with "messages" for greater clarity on the scope of the control.
Shal
