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[Travis Roy]

Kevin D. Clark wrote:

> Benjamin Scott <bscott at ntisys.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>  As I recall, someone "outside" of GNHLUG wrote and complained that their
>>info (not just an email, IIRC) appeared in a message in the
>>archives.  
> 
> 
> That's the first I've heard of this.

Ditto


> Yeah, like write a script to strip out email addresses.  Of course, I
> wrote this when I was led to believe that this would solve the actual
> problem.

When this came up before (with Derek) many found having the email 
addresses available to be useful. Of course making a public and private 
archive where the messages were left unaltered in the private archive 
would be okay with me. But I would still like an archive available with 
email addresses.

Also, how far would you want to take this? From Ben's email he said it 
wasn't just email, how would you strip that information out?


> Correct me if I am wrong: If somebody were to step forward and put
> together a complete/public archive of this mailing list then this
> "outside" person would probably contact the new archive maintainer
> with unspecified threats?  Bleh...

If I put up my own personal archive on my own person website of email I 
receive, be it list or otherwise, who is this person to say? It's MY 
email, I can do what I see fit with it, unless I had an agreement with 
the person who sent me the email prior to me receiving it.

Kind of like those emails you get from some business that say that the 
email is only for the person it was sent to, it's private, blah blah 
blah.. I just laugh at those. There is no way that can be legally binding.

>
>>From my perspective, I don't interpret the rest of your post as being
> "harsh" so much as being somewhat irrelvant.  If we had been made
> aware of the original problem, then this whole thing would have been
> different.

I agree, I didn't know about this "outside" person. Just the arguments 
with Derek and somebody posting his email address in the body of a message.