Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE!

Anthony Atkielski atkielski.anthony at wanadoo.fr
Fri May 6 04:06:49 PDT 2005


Giorgos Keramidas writes:

> This is a recurring theme.  It's really *NOT* the fault of the
> postmaster of FreeBSD.org that you posted to public mailing lists.

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.

> The Handbook section about mailing lists[1] says:

What the Handbook says is irrelevant, because nobody is required to read
it in order to subscribe to a list.

-- 
Anthony




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