Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 02:09:37 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff <akruijff@dds.nl> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE! Message-ID: <20050508000937.GG1896@Alex.lan> In-Reply-To: <20050507083804.GA622@gothic.blackend.org> References: <20050506103934.10FA34BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> <20050506105433.GA84877@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <2410174336.20050506130648@wanadoo.fr> <20050506151316.GA586@gothic.blackend.org> <20050507004923.GE3564@Alex.lan> <20050507083804.GA622@gothic.blackend.org>
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On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 10:38:04AM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 02:49:23AM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > > > > > Well, the "Mailing lists" link on http://www.FreeBSD.org/ homepage > > > points on > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL > > > > That true and this would be a fine argument if this where the only way > > to get the list adress. This isn't the case. Now it the warning you > > get, afther you get before you are realy on the list, would point to > > this stating it got the conditions then this would be a compelling > > argument. > > > > All, and I said "All", mailing list subscribing forms mention their > archives ("To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit > the freebsd-blahblah Archives."). It is impossible to miss it. I take you word for it. I didn't realy mean to fight this. More the mirroring (excluded www.xx.freebsd.org) like google and such. > Another thing, I do not really see many ways to discover the existence > of a FreeBSD mailing list: > > - from archives via google or the FreeBSD.org search system > - from FreeBSD.org docs > - from the www.FreeBSD.org front page > - from a clairvoyant? > > and these ways (at least most of them) clearly indicate the existence of > archives. > Anyway, it's just a false problem, it makes me think about a person > going to a TV show then later refusing to have "his face" recorded and > broadcasted... Sending a mail to a maillinglist means sending thousend of copies to the subscribers. This is a natural thing just like going on a TV show means it going to be broadcast. But having it go into a archive is not a natural thing. Thats way a user should be pointed to this. (As is the case.) This is also true for the mirroring to other non freebsd related sites like google. I beleave this is not the case. -- Alex
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