On 9/1/02 5:08 PM, Thomas Bushnell, BSG enlightened us with:
> John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 11:31:32PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
>>
>>> Debian does not redact its mailing list archives.
>>
>> It seems from looking at the URL posted that this is an unusual situation --
>> the request is coming from someone whose e-mail address appears on the To:
>> line of a message posted by someone else and CC'd to the Debian list. He
>> may well have never wished his e-mail address to appear on the list.
>
> I don't think that's "unusual" or any kind of exception. Short of
> things like libel, anything I say on the Debian lists should get
> archived, whether it's something someone else doesn't want published
> or not.
I agree with Mr. Bushnell. I simply hope that the Debian list archives uses
some sort of email munging mechanism in the future to make the archives less
harvestable by email-grabbing robots.
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