Charlie wrote: > > On 24/01/2007, at 2:51 PM, Doug wrote: > > >> >> Any feeling of privacy we might get by not having an archive is a >> facade; email is not a very private medium. >> >> We've almost always been publicly archived here and I can't think >> of any problems the list or anyone subscribed to it has encountered >> as a result. I'm curious what sort of problems do you anticipate? > > It's pretty commonplace these days for companies to google > applicants. Just as what my personal views down the pub are on > certain subjects are no-one's business if they weren't there at the > time, what I say in a mailing list is only the business of the people > on that list, but a public archive changes that dynamic. > > As it is, the archives have mainly been only accessible to > subscribers as far as I'm aware, which is enough of a firewall for > me. Yes, email isn't very private, neither are conversations in the > street, but you wouldn't want someone you never met to be able to see > snippets of conversations out of context long after the fact.
You may be disturbed to find this then: [http://www.mail-archive.com/brin-l@mccmedia.com/] I don't completely disagree with you Charlie, but I do like having the archive available because it’s the only way I read email at work and I like perusing the old stuff at times. I wanted to read some stuff from the fall of '03 and the only place I could find it was on the above linked list. The MC Media archive is very incomplete. -- Doug _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
