<div dir="ltr"><div>I have never ever searched in DuckDuckGo or Google for a tech topic and an answer came via an archived email message in KWLUG.</div><div><br></div><div>So the utility of that is dubious at best.</div><div><br></div><div> I don't mind that it becomes private. <br></div><div><br></div><div>And if this is a barrier to participation, like with that person, then it points more towards making the archive private. <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 3:45 AM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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>
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