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
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