Re: [UUPoly-L] Public Archives Redux

["Ed Blanchette" <ejjabla@comcast.net>]

considering my own life situation, including the where I live, I do not need 
this privacy.  But I can understand that others might.  So I vote for making 
the archives private.

Ed <ejjabla@comcast.net>
Citrus Hts. (Sacramento County)
California USA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dwight A. Ernest" <dwighternest@gmail.com>
To: <uupoly-l@uupa.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 5:11 AM
Subject: [UUPoly-L] Public Archives Redux


> 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
> Mosaic Commons Cohousing in Sawyer Hill Ecovillage
> (We are looking for neighbors!)
> Berlin MA USA      +1.860.532.0650
> dwighternest@gmail.com