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Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives



On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 08:30:37AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> I think the default behaviour should be to keep the post private, not to
> open it up. That is, if the author and other individuals do not reply,
> the message is kept hidden.
> 
> The primary reason for this is that the existing messages were sent to
> debian-private with an expectation of privacy. Folk that have changed
> address or become otherwise not-immediately available may still care,
> and the principle of least surprise should apply.
> 
> We can however change the expectations for new messages being sent to
> debian-private, and in 3 years *they* would become public by default.

Seconded, on all points, for the same reasons.

Dave

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