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Subject: Re: m.gmane.org
From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey @ goldmark . org>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 21:47:18 -0700 (PDT)
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Reply-to: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey @ goldmark . org>

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Basically, they won't archive any list that doesn't want to be archived,
> but if the list is open for subscription, the list owner has to either
> notice the subscription message or opt out.

That makes sense.  Either the list owner pays attention to who subscribes
or doesn't.  As a list member, I know that anyone or anything can be
lurking on most lists.  I really don't see a problem here.

> Hm.  Yeah, I think Lars hasn't thought hard enough about this.  He's a
> smart guy, though, and quite willing to work with people, so maybe someone
> here who runs a list with public subscription but that they don't consider
> public should try to explain their point of view.

And maybe we should take this discussion to gmane.discuss.

> (I consider all lists that I run with public subscription to be public
> lists exactly as described on that page, so I'm not of any help there.)

Me, too.  Indeed, I've been "nominating" the lists I manage to gmane since
this discussion came up.

-j


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Jeffrey Goldberg                            http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
Relativism is the triumph of authority over truth, convention over justice




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