Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 05:28:46PM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 03:03 -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> > > 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 regularly find people's contact information via list archives; several
times, I've had to spend over an hour digging to find someone, because
every archive I could find the person on messed with the contact information.
I don't consider that an acceptable trade.
> 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.
I post regularly on Debian lists, and have done so for several years on
multiple still-active email addresses, and with a default, completely untuned
SpamAssassin installation and no Bayes, I see only a few junk mails a day.
Sorry, but I'm just not particularly sympathetic to people who want to
inconvenience others and reduce the utility of Debian's list archives for
this purpose.
--
Glenn Maynard
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