From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 10 23:23:53 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97D3E16A4CE for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 23:23:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hyperreal.org (taz3.hyperreal.org [209.237.226.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4CCA643D54 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 23:23:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@hyperreal.org) Received: (qmail 44328 invoked by uid 1001); 10 May 2005 23:23:56 -0000 Message-ID: <20050510232356.44327.qmail@hyperreal.org> In-Reply-To: <2410174336.20050506130648@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 16:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Sender: mike@hyperreal.org From: Mike Brown X-Whoa: whoa. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL119 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 23:23:53 -0000 Anthony Atkielski wrote: > It _is_ the fault of the mailing list manager that posts are being > archived without the permission of mailing-list members. Members must > be required to explicitly grant permission when they subscribe. Even if they did, there is no way for the mailing list software or the administrators of the list to know who is receiving the messages or whether those addresses correspond to individual human beings. The list is just a list of addresses. It is quite possible, even likely, that at least one or two of the addresses subscribed to this very list are archiving every post, or perhaps reflecting the posts to email users on another network. In short, if you don't want it public, don't post it.