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

[Benjamin Tompkins]

Also, email addresses are like water these days.  If there is truly a
concern, you can always open a new account with a free provider and forward
all email from that new account to your preferred account.

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 8:23 AM CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>> >
>> > --
>> > http://pnijjar.freeshell.org
>> >
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