mathieu stumpf guntz <[email protected] > wrote: >> I think it was important to re-explain all those points so >> that the community, which is - again - unnecessarily taken >> as witness, is not deceived by a scenario built from >> scratch. >> Again, to discredit the movement by such erroneous but >> public accusations still shows that only personal >> interests and vainness matter in this conflict with some >> people.
> I seize the opportunity to ask: what is the legal status of > the list? Is it considered public? > I mean, it's easy to subscribe for anyone, but you still > have to subscribe. And as far as I know, accessing archives > require to login. Now there are other website which make > crawled archives publicly accessible, but just because some > do that doesn't mean it's legal. > […] Accessing the archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/ does not require logging in (and AFAIR never has), but even if it did, for all practical (legal) purposes this mailing list is a public venue, if only because anybody can subscribe to it, thus not limiting the audience in any meaningful way. Tim _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
