[Yanel-dev] Archiving email messages [Fwd: IMPORTANT: your message to w3c-dist-auth]

[Michael Wechner]

Cedric Staub wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 09:57:28AM +0100, Michael Wechner wrote:
>   
>> I am biased about this, because I would consider a public mailing list, 
>> well .... to be public,
>> but I would consider it as friendly to tell people what they are getting 
>> into...
>>     
>
> In my opinion, if you post on a *public* mailing list you should be
> aware of what you're getting into. They could just as well have included
> a disclaimer on their homepage telling people that the messages are
> being archived.
>   

I think we should add a disclaimer to

http://www.yanel.org/mailing-lists.html

Cheers

Michael
> But I believe they are just trying to shield themselves from being sued
> or made responsible in case someone says something stupid. Just look at
> what people are doing on Facebook, thinking that the platform is private
> even though it clearly is not.
>
> Cheers
> Cedric
>