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[Axel]

I'm agree as well.

Maybe it's clever to send a monthly remainder that this mailing list  
is public and will be archived forever, to all members.

Axel


Quoting gordon dunlop <zubenel at fedoraproject.org>:

> On 19 April 2011 01:05, Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I sympathise a lot with the desire for personal privacy; and find it a
>> shame that in modern society one can easily become a hostage to
>> Google, Facebook and perhaps a LUG mailing list - which might have
>> captured embarassing or non-representative deeds online.
>>
>> This said the mailing list is a public forum, and one must acknowledge
>> that posting here is a public record announcement, and a matter of the
>> public record.  All too often people neglect these facts, and come to
>> regret prior postings.  I am particularly concerned for children and
>> adolescents today who will face a future where even their non-adult
>> lives are open to scrutiny 20, 30, 50, 100 years hence.
>>
>> I can offer some advice in these situations:
>>
>> - Bury the 'bad content' by producing more relevant & insightful
>> comments; which show you in a better light.
>> - Always be cautious when hitting send.
>> - It's probably nowhere near as bad as you think it is.
>>
>> I should point out that I have no idea what the post is; nor an
>> inclining to find out... and that there may be other reasons to
>> request deletion of a post.
>>
>>  Thanks for the feedback Rick, I agree with what you are saying. The post
> itself is innocuous, the member joined Autumn 2010, and I got the impression
> he did not realise it was a public mailing list. I will not be deleting it
> but I will modify the "welcome message" for new subscribers which will
> include the words "public mailing list" in it, so that new subscribers are
> in no doubt that posts are open to the whole world.
>
> Gordon
>
>
>
>
>> I don't know what other members think, but I'd eer on the side of NOT
>> removing the post; unless there are exceptional circumstances ... e.g.
>> if the post accidentally contained personal bank details.  The reason
>> being, I'd hate to set a precedence for other requests; it's a mailing
>> list, it's public, and archived, behave accordingly.
>>
>> This said, if you (Gordon) thought that the request was reasonable and
>> did warrant censoring; I'd have no astronomical objection to the post
>> being removed.
>>
>> R.
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