Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE!

[Roland Smith]

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 01:06:48PM +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> 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.

On the page where you subscribe to a mailing list there is a link to the
list archives. The existance to this link implies a public accessible
archive of the list. If you don't like that, don't subscribe.

Roland
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