On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Jon Stanley wrote:
On Feb 19, 2008 10:45 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff(a)ocjtech.us>
wrote:
> 4) What should the policy on archives be? My proposal:
>
> A) All lists must have public archives. The exception would be the
> default "mailman" list.
Agreed on everything (with Mike's caveats) except for this. There
*will* be exceptions to this rule. An example that I'm on is
fedora-freemedia-list - we don't want folks home addresses showing up
to anyone that cares to look at the archives.
freemedia is a closed list with private archives, because of the
personal information to be found there. fedora-board-list is another
one, and I'm sure there's more, dealing with security for example.
There needs to be a method of exception to the rule.
+1 for the general idea, though - there should be *good* reason to get
an exception that requires approval from Someone In Charge(TM)
Hmm, unfortunately I don't think hosted is the right solution for those
people. We even offer direct rsync access to all of the projects, I had
assumed we'd be doing the same for mail archives. We don't allow any
private data in hosted currently, not sure that we should for the mailing
lists either.
-Mike