> It should be possible to participate in a public forum without being > forced to reveal your private information. We do not require people > who show up at LUG meetings to give out their home addresses; nor > should we do similar here. This mailing list, like many, avails the > subscriber of two methods (that I am aware of) to help guard their > privacy: it honors X-no-archive, preventing the archive of all posts > which carry this header; and it allows the subscriber's e-mail address > to be obscured from the list of subscribers. Unfortunately, AFAIK it > does not allow the list manager to configure the archives to > adequately obscure e-mail addresses contained in posts which are > archived.
Okay. While I agree with everything Derek is saying I have a few questions. Whould it really be that hard to remove people's email addresses from the archive? Does the archive really have to be all that public? Perhaps adding a login would be good enough? Isn't part of the reason for having an archive is so that people can go back and look up answers to stuff, if people start X-no-archiving their messages then we won't have this resource anymore. What about people that keep their own archives available on a publically available web server that do not follow X-no-archive headers? (I used to do this for another list I belonged to a long time ago). The main thing I'm trying to say is that we should somehow block email addresses from showing up on the archive website rather then have people stop it from archiving their messages. The archive becomes pointless if a large number of people's posts don't even show up on it. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
