user authentication and access

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:
> On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Sure, if anyone wants to implement this, it's cool with me.  The value
>> of view should probably just default to the value of read if not given.

> Agreed.  Or maybe the union of read and post?  (I can imagine a rare
> case where post isn't a subset of read, for example as a bug-report
> forum in which users can post but not see the resulting internal
> discussion.  It might be nice to have the group show up in the list in
> that case.)

Hm.  Yeah, that works, although union is harder to implement (you can't
just squish the wildmats together because of the effect of !).

> And on further thought, I think "list" might be a more intuitive name?

Yeah, that sounds better to me too.

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