This does come as a surprise to me. I had thought that the email archive was searchable by being stored on the IEEE host, but I did not realize that anyone, anywhere in the World, could observe the conversations with a Google search external to the IEEE. I don’t think this is what we intended to do when this forum was set up as a private membership reflector email system.
I would think that many compliance professionals, knowing that their affiliations and comments could be publicly observed, would be cowed into participating at only the most superficial level of technical and legal content. I generally believe in a free flow of information, but knowing that your every word can be monitored and used for whatever purpose by anyone capable of a keyword search simply has to have a chilling effect on candor within the regulatory compliance community. Or from a different perspective, what value does such openness return to our members and the regulatory compliance community? Since our forum still displays a notable lack of spam, I assume that membership in our forum (required for posting) is still personally controlled by our admins (and a word of thanks to them for their service). Ed Price WB6WSN Chula Vista, CA USA From: Dan Roman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 5:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PSES] Public view of this email server? See the footer attached to every message: All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html -- Dan Roman [email protected] -------- Original message -------- From: "Kortas, Jamison" <[email protected]> Date: 11/21/16 1:43 PM (GMT-06:00) To: [email protected] Subject: [PSES] Public view of this email server? Hi All, Maybe I am the only one who didn’t know this, but I found a thread in which I had I participated in a Google search. I did not know these emails were public in some way, at least enough to be found and indexed by Google. Just an FYI. The thread I found: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg72464.html -Jamison - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) <http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html> List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <[email protected]> David Heald <[email protected]> - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]>
