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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 14:23:22 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In lugnet.org.us, "Kevin Loch" <kloch@opnsys.com> writes:
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> > 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".
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> 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. :)
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> But I wonder how you go about actually creating a truly private mailing list
> in the first place?
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> Hmm.
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> 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]:
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> http://www.onelist.com/archive/wamalug
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> Anyone can read anything that anyone's ever written there, including, for
> example:
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> http://www.onelist.com/messages/wamalug?archive=1
> http://www.onelist.com/messages/wamalug?archive=61
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> 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...
However the mailing list software I am familiar with (Listproc and
Majordomo) require you to be a subscriber in order to access the
archives (or at least can be, and usually are, configured that way).
--
Frank Filz
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