Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE!

[Alex de Kruijff]

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