Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pascal and other Luggers, Been trying to understand what I consider as a strange pattern of behaviour: why should contributions to a mailing list opened to all not be archived ? Archiving and indexing on a global scale are two great assets of the Internet. They allow the automated build-up of enormous knowledge bases. They also allow sophisticated search procedures on the history of a debate: the 1st questions, the construction of sophisticated threads, the evolution of opinions, etc. What is the use of contributing (i.e. answering to questions, asking questions or questionning answers) if the contributions should be limited by some sort of instantaneous lifespan ? I am extremely grateful to such services as DejaNews which allow me to search and analyse all kinds of opinions about problems I am confronted with, without wasting other people's time and everyone's bandwidth with questions solved a million times before. People who wish to remain secretive about their hobbies, opinions, projects, etc, have the ability to avoid public mailing lists such as the LUG and many others, or to use a pseudonym. There also is the possibility to build closed and moderated user groups, where a "club" decides with its own rules what members to admit, managing encryption and public keys to avoid any 'outsider' lurking in. No, I do not undestand why archiving this list should create any concern... Alan. Pascal wrote: > > On 21-11-1998 16:56 Brian Reid wrote: > > >Folks, if you send a message to a large public mailing list, it is > >going to be stored forever whether you like it or not, and whether you > >put the words NO ARCHIVE in it or not. Let's not get silly about > >whether something is or isn't archived, because if you send it to 787 > >people, the chances of all of them deleting it is completely zero. > > I agree with you Brian. > The lack of privacy among members of a list is probably the price we have > to pay for worldwide coverage. > But this will lead some people, one of them myself, to think twice before > sending a message to the list :-( > > Pascal > NO ARCHIVE > > -------------------------------------------------------- > See my photo pages at http://members.xoom.com/cyberplace/ > -------------------------------------------------------- > <<< PGP public key available on request >>>