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

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

I have never ever searched in DuckDuckGo or Google for a tech topic and an
answer came via an archived email message in KWLUG.

So the utility of that is dubious at best.

I don't mind that it becomes private.

And if this is a barrier to participation, like with that person, then it
points more towards making the archive private.

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 3:45 AM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> 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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