[kwlug-disc] Should kwlug-disc archives be private?

[CrankyOldBugger]

I don't recall anyone in this list giving any personal stories short of "I
used to use product xyz", so I don't see a problem with our emails being
public.  So I vote "ok with public archives".

Cranky


On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 06:45, Doug Moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:

> I don't personally require the archives to be private.
>
> I no longer worry about keeping my email address private (with respect to
> spam). Nowadays, if I share my email address with a friend who doesn't use
> proper I.T. procedures, they are likely to have their contact information
> harvested, and now my email address is in a spam database. This has
> happened multiple times. So now I don't worry about this, and I use a
> commercial service to filter the spam out of my email.
>
> And I don't share anything on the list that I wouldn't want to be seen
> publicly. I assume that all information that I place on the internet is
> public knowledge. Because security is hard.
>
> I have a preference for public archives, but I would not want that
> preference to create a barrier to other people participating in our
> community.
>
> Doug Moen.
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018, at 12:45 AM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> > A few weeks ago a list member contacted me privately. This person was
> > uncomfortable participating on the mailing list because the archives
> > are public, and show up in search engine results.
> >
> > A long time ago, this made sense. Stack Exchange did not exist, so
> > sometimes people would search for solutions to technical problems and
> > find them in our archives. That is much less the case now.
> >
> > There is also the issue of email address obfuscation. Mailman does a
> > terrible job of this, and I am sure that our addresses are easily
> > harvested by spammers. This issue came up many years ago as well, but
> > we did not do anything about this.
> >
> > On the other hand, KWLUG is a public group that advocates FLOSS, and
> > FLOSS has a bias towards transparency.
> >
> > I am not sure what the right decision is here, and I am not sure how
> > we go about making that decision. I would prefer that this not turn
> > into a bikeshed situation, but action by dictatorial fiat seems wrong
> > too.
> >
> > So, for those who care: would you be offended if we made list archives
> > private? Why?
> >
> > Would you be offended if we kept list archives public? Why?
> >
> > - Paul
> >
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