On Tue, 27 Aug 2013, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Alexander Wirt <formo...@debian.org> [2013.08.27.0804 +0200]: > > No, I am sorry. Especially as a parent interested in the topic this > > doesn't make sense to me. I want to follow the process, even when I > > won't participate now. But I want to be able to step in later (when > > debconf comes back to europe) and I want to read the archives then. > > In that case, discussions on the list will be limited to an abstract > level, and to the input of those parents who don't care about how much > the Web gets to know about their kids. Those parents who exercise care > in not predefining their kids' online personae will not participate in > the same way they would if they'd know that anything they say will be > read only by a closed circle of people. > > How about making archives non-public but only accessible to > subscribers?
Parents who are concerned about this should assume that the archives are going to be available to anyone as it would be trivial for someone to subscribe and obtain access to the archives. Even if the list isn't archived, someone could still subscribe, and privately archive the messages. We shouldn't give parents a false sense of security. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com The attackers hadn't simply robbed the bank. They had carried off everything portable, including the security cameras, the carpets, the chairs, and the light and plumbing fixtures. The conspirators had deliberately punished the bank, for reasons best known to themselves, or to their unknown controllers. They had superglued doors and shattered windows, severed power and communications cables, poured stinking toxins into the wallspaces, and concreted all of the sinks and drains. In eight minutes, sixty people had ruined the building so thoroughly that it had to be condemned and later demolished. -- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org