[321] in Kakapo Windows Team
Re: private vs public list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Silis)
Tue Feb 10 13:05:59 2004
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Cc: Mark Silis <mark@mit.edu>, <kakapo@mit.edu>
From: Mark Silis <mark@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:05:57 -0500
To: "Paul B. Hill" <pbh@mit.edu>
Hi Paul,
I cannot think of any, and from my perspective I prefer that it not be
public. I am surprised and a tad bit bothered to know things I may send
to this list are being possibly shared in a much broader community. I
prefer the archive be made private, if its necessary at all.
Thanks,
-- Mark
On Feb 10, 2004, at 12:56 PM, Paul B. Hill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It has just been pointed out to me that the archive of the kakapo
> mailing
> list is publicly viewable, but I notice that the list itself is
> defined to
> be private.
>
> Stopit received a complaint about the archive because it contains
> archives
> of porn spam in addition to the non-spam mail. Someone external to MIT
> found
> the links to the archived porn spam.
>
> Is there any reason to continue to make the archive publicly viewable
> and
> searchable?
>
> Paul
>
