Re: [UUPoly-L] Public Archives Redux

["Tara Shakti-Ma" <dakinitara@tantrikapath.com>]

Hi Dwight:

I'm just getting back from some adventures, and just saw this.  All the lists I own/moderate are private....archives are not visible to non-members and everyone must give a lucid and relevant reason to join.   In the Yahoo format this is just a couple of clicks to accomplish.  I'm sorry to hear that to make that transition for this list would be so difficult.   However, my vote, if that is what you're asking for, is "private".

Namaste':  
Tara Shakti-Ma   )O(

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© Copyright Tara Shakti 2009
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dwight A. Ernest 
  To: uupoly-l@uupa.org 
  Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 8:11 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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