RE: Mailing List Archival: Tell me what you think

[Norbert Mikula <Norbert@DataChannel.com>]

> I think the smart thing to do with existing mail lists is to keep
> their *past* contents private and start over with publicly visible
> versions on (say) 2000.01.01 after putting everyone on notice that
> from this point on their postings will be publicly visible.

I agree w/ Jon.

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Norbert H. Mikula
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Bosak [mailto:Jon.Bosak@eng.sun.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 1:29 PM
> To: ndw@nwalsh.com
> Cc: laurawalker@earthlink.net; chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: Mailing List Archival: Tell me what you think
> 
> 
> [Norm Walsh:]
> 
> | / Jon Bosak <bosak@boethius.eng.sun.com> was heard to say:
> | | Everything we're doing in the process committee hinges on the
> | | assumption that archives are public (not world-writable, but
> | | world-readable).
> | 
> | Does it follow that private lists will be publicly archived?
> | I'm hesitant to announce the DocBook list archive because the
> | docbook-eb and docbook-tc lists are equally accessible.
> | 
> | It's always been my assumption that the EB list, for example,
> | would not be made public. I'm not sure that all discussions have
> | been carried out with the sort of political correctness that
> | would have been used had the list been public. I'm not sure they
> | weren't either, but...
> 
> The assumption I referred to was about the future, not the past.
> 
> I think the smart thing to do with existing mail lists is to keep
> their *past* contents private and start over with publicly visible
> versions on (say) 2000.01.01 after putting everyone on notice that
> from this point on their postings will be publicly visible.
> 
> Jon
>