Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 14:33:20 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Fafa Hafiz Krantz <fteg@london.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE! Message-ID: <20050506113320.GA1309@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <20050506105722.099954BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20050506105722.099954BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com>
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On 2005-05-06 05:57, Fafa Hafiz Krantz <fteg@london.com> wrote: >> No, that would be impossible. Hint: third-party mirrors (i.e. Google). > > What if ones life is at risk? > Would that be up to the 3rd party mirror administrators? I'm afraid that if your life would be at risk because you posted questions on some of the FreeBSD mailing lists, there are truly more important problems than online copies of your messages. But yes, still things would be up to you and the third party administrators. The postmaster of FreeBSD does not have control over who copies your posts and where they are mirrored. Limiting access to your posts (or anyone's for that matter) is contrary to the openness of the project. >> This is a recurring theme. It's really *NOT* the fault of the >> postmaster of FreeBSD.org that you posted to public mailing lists. > > There should be a law protecting users against this. > There should be a way to help them! This is why it is documented in a lot of places that the mailing lists are public, open to anyone, archived online and their archives are available through the FreeBSD web site. Thus, it is first and foremost __you__ who controls what is available online by controlling what and when you post. - Giorgos
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