[Peace-discuss] Civil Disobedience & Lists

[Jim Buell]

Although a side issue, it's worth bringing up that the default on Groogroo 
e-lists, and thus the behavior of peace@ and peace-discuss@, is for the 
list archives to be open to members and non-members alike. While that's 
generally a fine thing when human readers are involved, it also sets things 
up so that search-bots like Google's will archive everything that gets 
posted to these lists. As an admin for the Prairiegreens lists, I've heard 
enough concerns voiced by people who've posted to those and then found 
those posts coming up in web searches, that I've switched those lists over 
so that only members may view the archives. Since anyone can sign 
themselves up to be on these e-lists, that doesn't keep anybody from seeing 
the archives if they want; this method does, however, keep the search-bots 
at bay. The peace and/or peace-discuss list owners might want to consider 
something similar.

Just a thought,
Jim

At 04:26 PM 2/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:21:38PM -0600, John Fettig wrote:
> > * Clint Popetz <clint at ucimc.org>:
> > > So, I in no way want to discourage these types of actions, but I want
> > > everyone to be aware that things written on these lists are viewable
> > > by anyone with a web browser, and we can unfortunately assume the
> > > local FBI office has a web browser.
> >
> > I agree, so what about asking the person who maintains the archive to
> > censor the posts that have been made?  Who is the person that maintains
> > the archives?
>
>Right.  No one maintains the archive...it just exists :)
>
>Up until now, nothing incriminatory has been said, so I don't think we
>need to take any action on the archive.
>
>                         -Clint
>
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