I don't think you can open up something like this post-facto. People
joined thinking it had a degree of professional privacy—that it
wouldn't appear in Google. Personally, I don't care at all. But I
think you need to keep whatever implicit contract you set up at first.
Tim
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Hahn, Harvey <hhahn_at_ahml.info> wrote:
> Ranti Junus wrote:
> |Hello List Admin :-)
> |...Unfortunately, the NGC4LIB list archive is only available
> |to the list subscribers only.
> |Could we open the list archive so it would benefit
> |non-subscribers as well?
>
> My 2 cents: not unless all email addresses are masked by the archive
> software, as various nonlibrary lists have done to deter address
> harvesting.
>
> Besides, if you use MS Outlook (I can't speak about other email
> clients), you can always send a thread (or selected messages) to your
> colleagues by highlighting all the messages you wish to share and then
> clicking "forward" to send the whole group at once. Outlook combines
> all of the messages into a single email containing the multiple
> messages.
>
> Harvey
>
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