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Subject: RE: Mailing List Archival: Tell me what you think


FYI, public archives of all of our technical committee lists have been available for about a month now. 

On Tuesday, December 21, 1999 3:23 PM, Norbert Mikula [SMTP:Norbert@DataChannel.com] wrote:
| > 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.
| 
| ----------------------------------------------
| Norbert H. Mikula
| Chief Technology Officer
| Norbert@DataChannel.com <mailto:Norbert@DataChannel.com> 
| DataChannel, 600 108th Avenue NE 9th Floor, Bellevue, WA 98004
| Phone: 425.462.1999 Fax: 425.637.1192 http://www.datachannel.com 
| 
| 
| 
| > -----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
| > 


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