[yshavurah] Re: Concern about Privacy
- From: Stephen Scherr <sscherr@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'Havurah'" <yshavurah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 23:18:20 -0500
Folks,
Dan is correct--anytime you use e-mail, it can be shared or forwarded
outside the original set of recipients. There's also some (small, I
hope) risk of it being intercepted, either by someone malevolent or in
a presumably benign watchdog role.
That being said, finding a way to make it harder for a casual user,
or web-crawler to get our information might well be a good thing.
Dan--
Apparently Freelists is using the Listar software which has now been
superceded by the Ecartis software. It is possible that the Ecartis
configuration variables (listed at
http://www.ecartis.org/variables.html) are also available in Listar.
The ones that look likely to me are
file-archive-status=admin, to restrict who can access the archive files
archive-world-readable=false, which should either set file permissions
or access permissions.
If those aren't available, or don't work, then I think it highly
likely that we could set up a private server and restrict any webpage
access. I'd be willing to try it, as I have a Linux server running at
home connected to my cable modem connection.
Steve
On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 05:39 PM, Daniel Katz-Stein wrote:
>
> Archiving our postings is a 'feature' of the listserv and is in website
> format. I looked and do not see how to turn that off, but if that is
> desired, I can ask.
>
> But anytime you post something in to a listserv, you have lost privacy
> of where it will be sent....
>
> Dan
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