<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>Speaking as someone whose mailing list activity has left a trail of cringe-inducing embarrassment well back into my awkward teen years - keep it public! Preservation and access to our shared history comes first. <div><br></div><div>Also, pseudonymous e-mail accounts come cheaply if needed.</div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org> </div><div>Date: 2018-11-26 3:45 AM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: kwlug-disc@kwlug.org </div><div>Cc: Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca> </div><div>Subject: [kwlug-disc] Should kwlug-disc archives be private? </div><div><br></div></div>A few weeks ago a list member contacted me privately. This person was<br>uncomfortable participating on the mailing list because the archives<br>are public, and show up in search engine results. <br><br>A long time ago, this made sense. Stack Exchange did not exist, so<br>sometimes people would search for solutions to technical problems and<br>find them in our archives. That is much less the case now. <br><br>There is also the issue of email address obfuscation. Mailman does a<br>terrible job of this, and I am sure that our addresses are easily<br>harvested by spammers. This issue came up many years ago as well, but<br>we did not do anything about this. <br><br>On the other hand, KWLUG is a public group that advocates FLOSS, and<br>FLOSS has a bias towards transparency. <br><br>I am not sure what the right decision is here, and I am not sure how<br>we go about making that decision. I would prefer that this not turn<br>into a bikeshed situation, but action by dictatorial fiat seems wrong<br>too.<br><br>So, for those who care: would you be offended if we made list archives<br>private? Why?<br><br>Would you be offended if we kept list archives public? Why?<br><br>- Paul<br><br>-- <br>http://pnijjar.freeshell.org<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kwlug-disc mailing list<br>kwlug-disc@kwlug.org<br>http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org<br><br></body></html>