Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 03:09:37PM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote:
> > retained by an mbox but not exposed to the web don't seem all that
> > objectionable, especially since the web archives don't munge email
> > addresses.
>
> They might one day. It's possible to restrict http://lists.debian.org to
> stop or slow down people leeching across the web archives.
The day Debian maims its archives in such a way will be a sad day, indeed ...
> > I suppose it'd be necessary for the exported mboxes to honor the
> > No-External-Archive: yes and so forth, which might not be the case
> > today (I've never gained access to them so I don't know).
>
> I actually have no idea whether we honour that already or not.
As Branden put it[1], "Debian's mailing lists are its nervous system, and our
list archives our collective memory." I'd hope that such a header as
"No-External-Archive" would never be honored (except perhaps to bounce
the message--the only acceptable way to not be archived is to not post).
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/03/msg00091.html
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Glenn Maynard
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