[322] in Kakapo Windows Team
Re: private vs public list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver Thomas)
Tue Feb 10 13:50:48 2004
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Cc: Oliver Thomas <othomas@mit.edu>, <kakapo@mit.edu>
From: Oliver Thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:50:46 -0500
To: "Paul B. Hill" <pbh@mit.edu>
owls@mit.edu has always been a private list feeding to a public discuss
archive. I believe that was the reasoning behind setting up
kakapo@mit.edu the same way. (I don't remember if I'm the one who set
it up, but if I did, that was my reasoning. It was supposed to be the
"Windows Owls".) It's required some care and occasional deleting, but
has otherwise been beneficial.
I have no strong opinion one way or the other, besides my "SETEC
ASTRONOMY" position. Let the voting begin....
Oliver
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
>
