I agree, it’s a good idea. And it’s easy enough to get a free account if you don’t already have one
Eric On Mon, Aug 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM roy curet via Organizers < [email protected]> wrote: > Good idea. Thanks for all your work on this. > > Roy Curet > Missoula, MT > > > On Aug 4, 2025, at 7:55 AM, Seth Seeger via Organizers < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Dear list members, > > Since the beginning, the archives for this list have been public. This > was an effort to make information easier to search, to find, to link to, > and to share. However, the days of free information online have changed. > AI bots are now scraping the web for data to train on and privacy is more > of an issue. > > As we move to groups.io, Chris and I would like to make the archives > private. The biggest reasons are member privacy and to protect us from > AI training/scraping. This means that you’ll need a free account on the > new site to view the archives. > > We feel this is a good change for our community. Since the only barrier > to the archives would be subscribing, we think this is a reasonable trade > off between privacy and accessibility. > > If you have concerns about this change, please reply! (Once we make the > archives at groups.io private, we cannot make them public again later.) > > Thank you, > Seth & Chris > _______________________________________________ > Organizers mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Organizers mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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