Andreas Tille schrieb am Friday, den 05. August 2011: > [sorry for pressing wrong key and sending unfinished mail] > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:20:03PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > And you are of course sure that everybody using reportbug knows there > > address > > will be published? We have several complaints a month about the problem. > > Please stick to the topic. In this thread it is about mailing lists. > However, I'm not against discussing the debbugs issue in another thread > because it is for sure relevant. > > > > (Doing some collection and giving stats by sender or stuff like that > > > might be processing of that information needing some permission, but > > > those data is not processed if it is simply part of the published mail). > > We were talking about data mining on the mails which is imho questionable if > > the stats will be published full name and address. > > While I admit that my primary goal was actually doing such statistics > and it might also an interesting topic what result we finally can > publish this is also a different topic. So I tried to clarify the > topic in the subject a bit. > > The thread is about publishing mboxes of the mailing lists at > lists.debian.org which are containing the information which is also > available via the HTML archive. It was also about the listmaster > attempt to strip some information from the archive. Some reasoning > about stripping names was given by you, but I'm in the line with > Bernhard that your reasons do not apply here. Debian is not > *collecting* data (like in a web form were you fill in data to do some > research) but we are rather logging information people are providing. > That's a different issue and striping name information would reduce also > the content of the archive: It sometimes is important who says > something. > > The work to convert the original mboxes to those that can be published > and which are cleaned up from SPAM is in progress. I hope we could > reach some consensus that those mboxes could be made available for the > public. We will see. I am currently not sure about it. And I repeat those conversion was only meaned for the gsoc project - not for publishing mboxes. Current status is that listmasters do not plan to publish any mboxes.
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