[325] in Kakapo Windows Team
Re: private vs public list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chad Dupuis)
Tue Feb 10 17:20:08 2004
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:16:15 -0500
From: Chad Dupuis <dupuis@MIT.EDU>
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I vote to have it private.
Cheers,
-Chad
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Oliver Thomas wrote:
> 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
>>
>
