[elky] Re: Admin: list archives
- From: "Mary McCarthy" <printces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:18:53 -0800
intreresting. Does that include photos?
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From: Ray Buck
To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 1:48 PM
Subject: [elky] Admin: list archives
There's been some concern about the archive for this list's posts. They're
located here:
//www.freelists.org/archive/elky
After some research, I found that the archiving cannot be disabled. It's
there and we're stuck with it.
So. Although the likelihood of anyone obtaining sensitive material by
searching the archives is pretty slim, you may want to keep in mind the fact
that everything that's posted here ends up in a public place. I would suggest
that phone numbers, home addresses and other stuff that might be associated
with identity theft and/or other misuse be limited to off-list communications
unless you really don't care about it...like if you're using a "throwaway"
email address as well as other personal info.
I don't perceive this as a big deal, since the previous list incarnations
have all had archive listings, but being a little careful can't hurt anything.
I need sleep. I'm gonna crash out for a while.
If ya come up with ideas about this, I'd love to hear 'em.
Ray
Can the archive be disabled or protected?
The archiving of a list can't be disabled. Please read about our mission and
purpose and try to understand that your archives are important to the
community. They aren't a privacy risk - we obfuscate all email addresses to
circumvent the SPAMmer-crawling-the-site problem.
If you feel that the information your subscribers post on the list shouldn't
be publicly available in the archives, please consider the following:
a.. Email isn't by itself a secure medium. Should you be using email at all
for these things?
b.. Anonymity can certainly be important, but this has nothing to do with
archived emails.
c.. If you wish to keep information private, perhaps FreeLists isn't the
best fit for your group?
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