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Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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lugnet.org.us
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Tue, 23 Nov 1999 04:49:14 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us, "Kevin Loch" <kloch@opnsys.com> writes:
> There might also be some comments that you wouldn't want to say on LUGNET (and
> therefore in "public"), but you might want to discuss on a private mailing
> list. Not to keep it from anyone, but just that the venue is less "public".
Oh, I definitely agree -- a group probably wouldn't want absolutely
positively everything always to have to be 100% publicly readable...
especially if it had lots of cursing and things like that. :)
But I wonder how you go about actually creating a truly private mailing list
in the first place?
Hmm.
I mean, for example, the entire hundreds-of-messages history of the WAMALUG
mailing list going back to July (when it was NOVALTC) is 100% public[1]:
http://www.onelist.com/archive/wamalug
Anyone can read anything that anyone's ever written there, including, for
example:
http://www.onelist.com/messages/wamalug?archive=1
http://www.onelist.com/messages/wamalug?archive=61
Since almost any mailing list package has some sort of archiving feature,
even if it's a crude one, and new subscribers can usually issue commands or
go to some webpage to retrieve or read old messages, I really have never
heard of any truly private mailing list except inside companies or research
labs...
But I guess you are talking about "less public" vs. "more public"...?
--Todd
[1] Err, make that 99.9% public -- not quite 100% because the email
addresses are truncated... :)
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 | | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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| (...) only archiving, or no archiving. We chose to leave the archives open to everyone. I guess if we ever wanted to take a discussion out of the public eyes, we could just start a discussion by "replying to all recipients" or something. I do like (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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| (...) which (...) Good point. There might also be some comments that you wouldn't want to say on LUGNET (and therefore in "public"), but you might want to discuss on a private mailing list. Not to keep it from anyone, but just that the venue is less (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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