On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Russ Allbery wrote: > Basically, they won't archive any list that doesn't want to be archived, > but if the list is open for subscription, the list owner has to either > notice the subscription message or opt out.
That makes sense. Either the list owner pays attention to who subscribes or doesn't. As a list member, I know that anyone or anything can be lurking on most lists. I really don't see a problem here. > Hm. Yeah, I think Lars hasn't thought hard enough about this. He's a > smart guy, though, and quite willing to work with people, so maybe someone > here who runs a list with public subscription but that they don't consider > public should try to explain their point of view. And maybe we should take this discussion to gmane.discuss. > (I consider all lists that I run with public subscription to be public > lists exactly as described on that page, so I'm not of any help there.) Me, too. Indeed, I've been "nominating" the lists I manage to gmane since this discussion came up. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ Relativism is the triumph of authority over truth, convention over justice
