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
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