Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 03:03 -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> 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 ...
Why?
>
> > > 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).
Do you believe such an attitude is helpful when, for example, we ask
people to post on debian-boot@l.d.o with their D-I test results? I would
say that a number of the people who do post their results are not aware
of what they are getting themselves into.
Pasc
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