Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE!

Mike Brown mike at hyperreal.org
Tue May 10 16:23:53 PDT 2005


Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> 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.

Even if they did, there is no way for the mailing list software or the 
administrators of the list to know who is receiving the messages or whether 
those addresses correspond to individual human beings. The list is just a list 
of addresses. It is quite possible, even likely, that at least one or two of 
the addresses subscribed to this very list are archiving every post, or 
perhaps reflecting the posts to email users on another network.

In short, if you don't want it public, don't post it.


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