[Volunteers] Hello out there

William R Ward bill at svlug.org
Mon Mar 28 12:50:05 PST 2005


Rick Moen writes:
>Quoting William R Ward (bill at svlug.org):
>
>> I believe web-team had archive available only to members as well.
>
>Web Team policy was that its list archive should be public (and it _was_
>public) -- to better draw in new volunteer involvement, and because the
>membership had a legitimate interest in following what we were doing,
>and because I couldn't see any privacy problems.
>
>Unfortunately, I missed one:  One long-ago post in the back-posts
>archive had included Tracey Vierra's (sp?) direct work telephone number,
>which she noticed was findable on the Web, and asked to have removed.
>
>Marc efficiently solved that problem by making the archive private.  
>I would have preferred a solution with greater public transparency, and
>could have suggested a couple and offered to do the work, but did not
>pursue the matter.

The list is easy to join if someone wants to view the archive.  We
don't need our internal business available on Google...

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William R. Ward - Vice President, Silicon Valley Linux Users Group
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