Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE!

[Bart Silverstrim]

On May 6, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote:

> Roland Smith writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> You cannot be sure that subscribers have read it unless you require 
> them
> to take explicit action to confirm that they have read it.

Part of me likes that attitude.  You assume users are too stupid to use 
computers even if they're trying to tackle FreeBSD.