Uwe Scholz wrote: > First, let me emphasize that I am not a lawyer and I am not sure if > the Savannah organization falls under the GDPR regulations. But as the > servers store also data of European citizens, I am relatively sure that > this _is_ the case. Other thoughts are welcome. See below for my other > comments.
I am not a lawyer either. But I don't see how your questions about the mailing lists can apply to Savannah. Mainly because the mailing lists are quite separate from Savannah. The mailing lists are not operated on the Savannah servers. Savannah is really only peripherally involved with mailing lists at all. One can from the Savannah web administration panel for your project cause a mailing list on the mailing list servers to be created for your project. That's it. And of course the Savannah project itself uses mailing lists itself for its own project discussion. Like this one. If you have problems subscribing or unsubscribing then the volunteer mailing list admins can help you with those problems. But if you have questions of policy then you should address those questions to the FSF directly. They are the ones that set policy. But from a practical standpoint I suggest that trying to suppress information always calls attention to it creating the opposite effect from the one you want. This is known as The Streisand Effect. You can read about the phenomenon here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect This was very well described by Jon Oliver in his satirical news show Last Week Tonight from May 2014. Right To Be Forgotten: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-ERajkMXw0&t=4m04s Also remember that public mailing lists have the purpose of distributing information to the public. Some have thousands of subscribers. Subscribers include many public archive sites. It is impossible by reason of practicality to reach out silently to all of them and ask thousands of individuals and archive sites to delete history. Trying to do so will create a lot of new history that would itself need to be deleted. My best advice is to let sleeping dogs lie and do nothing. Bob
