There's no way to control who archives the listserv in a 3rd party
location, possibly one open to Google. As in fact people already have
done with this list. So the archives are already available,and possibly
archived by Google. And I've got no problem with that.
Anyone who joins a completely public listserv that anyone can join,
which has several hundred or thousands of members, expecting any kind of
privacy to their communications, has mis-considered.
Jonathan
Tim Spalding wrote:
> 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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Johns Hopkins University
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Received on Fri Jan 30 2009 - 15:43:34 EST