Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE!

Alex de Kruijff freebsd at akruijff.dds.nl
Sat May 7 16:44:16 PDT 2005


On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 11:16:02AM -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> 
> 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.

I would use the word lazy. Yes the law assumes users are lazy.



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