outsider viewabilty

http://drupal.org/node/155244

By the way, I would like to address 'outsider viewabilty' of forums perhaps another way, starting with it being an admin option- probably at the group admin level rather than site-wide. Each group should determine whether outsiders can see what they're doing. Perhaps a global admin setting could allow/disallow this behavior, or even override/set this globally.

If you'd like to see this, please open a new feature request.

I would love to see this! I run several groups, many of which would like to allow outsiders to see what is happening in their forums to encourage joining, but with the forums hidden this does not work, even if the postings themselves are publicly viewable. I think it would be great if the group admin could set this, ideally for each forum, but even per container only would be amazing and very helpful for us!