[323] in Kakapo Windows Team
Re: private vs public list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Feb 10 15:06:06 2004
Message-Id: <200402102006.i1AK640Z029345@bearing-an-hourglass.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Oliver Thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
cc: "Paul B. Hill" <pbh@MIT.EDU>, kakapo@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:50:46 EST."
<09A432CD-5BFA-11D8-AB1A-000A95AF06BA@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:06:04 -0500
Well, looking at the first transaction of the discuss meeting, it
appears that I set the archive up. That said, I remember the same
reasonaing as Oliver. I have a preference for the public archive, but
I'm not strongly invested in the team, and if the team feels that the
archive should be private, I will be happy to set up moira to
automatically synchronize the discuss acl to the membership of the
mailing list.
Jonathon
> 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
> >
>
