Hi, [Sending to -project@, because this looks like an important project-wide decision to make, with non-technical implications. Cc'ing -support@, because current list subscribers might be interested as well. Please only reply to -project@, and -support@ members can follow the discussion on -project@ directly, or via... its public archive.]
Back when we've set up the tails-support@ mailing-list, we've explicitly decided *not* to have public archives for it. IIRC our rationale back then was that users may be sending sensitive information there by mistake, or without realizing that it would stay online forever. Indeed, https://tails.boum.org/support/tails-support reads: No archive of the content of this mailing list is kept. We believe this can be help reducing the impact of a posteriori analysis of sensitive information that might be sent to the list by mistake. But it appears that we were very naive. That's not at all how the Internet works. If there's an open and public mailing-list somewhere, at some point it will be archived somehow. And guess what? It *is* archived at least twice: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.tails.user https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ So we're conveying wrong information to current and potential list subscribers, in a way that may lead them to disclose information that should be kept hidden. IMO the only option we have is to acknowledge that a public, open-membership mailing-list will always end up being publicly archived, somehow. And then, we must adjust our communication wrt. that mailing-list so that it doesn't lie. And once we're there, we can as well enable public archives in our own Mailman interface, to make it easier for anyone who wants to look into them to do so... and potentially avoid a few duplicate questions being asked. Thoughts, opinions, feelings, concrete proposals? [OT background: actually, I've been wanting to propose enabling public archives for that mailing-list for months, for totally unrelated reasons: too often I'm sure that a question has been answered there already, but since I'm deleting most email I can't find it anymore. Only today I've learned about these two existing archives.] Cheers, -- intrigeri _______________________________________________ tails-support mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
