Re: [UUPoly-L] Public Archives Redux

[Keith Brown <keithb@nfnc.org>]

I'm one for open archives.  Significantly in the name of Transparency.  I'm
personally very out and a poly activist, and the open archives and search
engines actually benefit the cause(s) I'm standing for.

I also have several email addresses.  Anyone may join and post here, even
under a pseudonym.  So, if you're a mom with three live-in boyfriends
residing in (choose a state where the CPS folks will take your kids away if
they get wind), get a gmail or hotmail or yahoo alias account and create a
persona that you feel safe with.

And continue to state in each email that the list archives are open.

As one writer put it, there are plenty of private poly lists.  I appreciate
the breath of fresh air available here.

-Keith (my real name) :)

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Dwight A. Ernest <dwighternest@gmail.com>wrote:

> Those of us who moderate or manage the list from time to time receive notes
> from folks asking us to expunge evidence of their having been participants
> here. (List archives get indexed by search engines like Google, of course,
> because, as noted in the disclaimer which appears on every message, the
> list
> archives are public. However, the list of members' email addresses is
> private, so if you just receive and never send, no such publicly-indexed
> evidence will exist.)
> While this expunging is technically possible, the process is onerous
> because
> it's complicated and time-consuming. It also raises some ethical dilemmas,
> such as how to handle others' quoting of the requester's content in their
> own responses.
>
> So I put the question to you all, dear fellow manager/moderators, and to
> you
> as well, dear contributors: Should we make the archives private?
>
> -Dwight Ernest
>