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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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