On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 08:10:20PM +0200, Herouth Maoz wrote: > > On Wednesday, Nov 3, 2004, at 19:30 Asia/Jerusalem, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > >I wonder why it should "respect" this sort of header. Using a mailing > >list > >is a bargain you make. You gain publicity to what you write, and for it > >you lose privacy. That's right: you can't have publicity *and* privacy > >at > >the same time, and usually the balance of privacy and publicity is > >determined > >by the mailing list and its subscribers, not by you. > > This would be the same as saying "Publishing pages on a web site means > you want to make them public so I shouldn't respect your robots.txt > file". > > There are many reasons why people would not want to archive their > messages. For example, if the message contains information which is > transient - relevant now, but will become misleading tomorrow. Or when > the message is off-topic and they see no value in it being retained.
Basically none of those applies on a mailing list. Mails that should not be archived are probably either: 1. malicious/spam 2. duplicates 3. messages that were not meant to be sent to the list. (1) is not relevant to this discussion. (2) is not the typpe of thing that is known in advance, and (3) is actually usually worth archiving :-( -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
