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Kindred:
yes, access (read/write) to boards is set as individual permissions and can be set by individual board (or by permissions profile, applied to multiple boards)

THAT is fairly common on most sites - you have your public areas and you have your registered user areas and then you have some areas restricted to specific groups (like staff) and I have no problem with that...   

the reg required to read is BS though.

emanuele:
Hello timeonthewater and welcome to sm.org.

This has been requested several times, but always declined basically due to the reasons above.

Arantor:

--- Quote ---yes, access (read/write) to boards is set as individual permissions
--- End quote ---

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Access to boards is not handled in permissions. It's inclusive-only and set in the board's configuration. There is absolutely no way to deny someone from seeing a board in the base code, only to make sure that they don't have a group that lets them see it.

And there's no way to separate viewing a board from entering it in SMF, not without a mod.

(I didn't rewrite that entirely for Wedge for nothing.)

Kindred:
well, yes, the permissions to do this are not located in the member permissions area, but in the board settings area, you are correct. (but it's still a permissions thing)

and yes, if you can see a board's existence, you can go into it and read the messages...   

However reading the messages and responding (or posting a new message) are all separate permissions and can be granted by group. (so, one grop can see and read the board, another group can see, read and respond, and a third group can see, read, respond and post new)

timeonthewater:
All of my sites are viewable by the public. They are all fishing related sites and I want everyone to access General Information and other topics but if you were to view Fishing Reports you have to be a member. This is what most of the 11,000 members want.

I do not harvest email address and no body hates spammers more than I do.

I simply want to display all the board titles but restrict access to members only for one board but still be able to see it is there. I can't imagine why any developer would care how you restrict traffic. After all that is the same type of censorship they are trying to avoid. 

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