[volunteers] (forw) Volunteers list is now publicly archived, prospectively

[Rick Moen]

This time for sure!  (I had a permissions bug at
http://lists.svlug.org/archives/volunteers/ .)

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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:36:30 -0800
To: volunteers at lists.svlug.org
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
Subject: [volunteers] Volunteers list is now publicly archived, prospectively

Through several tricky moves with GNU Mailman, I've just succeeded in 
making the Volunteers mailing list be publicly archived from this point
forward -- a change of policy I proposed to Paul and Mark when they took
office and to which they agreed.  The change is effective as of this
post.

I should hasten to add that old postings, those prior to this one, are
NOT being taken public.  They will remain under the old policy.  Thus,
if you posted here trusting that your post would remain viewable only by
listmembers, that's still true.

How was this done?  Posts prior to this message have been moved to new
list volunteers-old, which is archive-only.  (No new posts will be
accepted, there.)  Also, you and everyone on volunteers@ have been made
a member of volunteers-old@ -- while continuing to be a member of
volunteers at .


Privacy:  If you preferred the old setup, I do sympathise.  (FYI:  All
privacy settings other than archive access have been carried forward
untouched.)  Going forward, your e-mail mailing list will be visible
(but slightly obscured by Mailman) in the public archives IF and when
you post, or might be if/when one of your posts gets quoted by someone
else in an ongoing thread.  

You're welcome to include a "X-No-Archive: Yes" header[1] if you don't
want your post Web-archived:  Mailman will honour your request.
However, there's no guarantee some other poster won't quote from it in
some later post.


_Why_ was it done?   Two reasons:  (1) So other LUGs can benefit from
discussion here, possibly finding solutions to their own problems by 
Web-searching.  (2) So we subscribers can reference our own and others'
postings by URL reference.  

I personally put a fair amount of detail and effort into some postings
here, and it's much more attractive to do so if I know it's not going
only into a closed little ghetto. 


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-No-Archive

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