The IEEE does not offer the archive option in their listserv functionality. The
admins had been maintaining an archive from the beginning (including the old
TREG and NEBS) but it was essentially privately held and not searchable. The
mail archive site is a free service that archives all threads on this list and
their admins worked with us to import all of the past archives that our admins
held.
Their search capability is quite good and it is not costing PSES anything. Only
downside would be if they decide to discontinue the service we would have to
find another solution.
This list is open to IEEE members and non-members and is sponsored and run by
IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society members. It is a closed list in that
subscribing and posting can only be done by confirmed members which is how we
control SPAM. We do allow subscription by people who are not IEEE members but
hope that subscribers who get value from this list will become IEEE members and
support PSES.
--Dan RomanIEEE Senior [email protected]
-------- Original message --------
From: Ed Price <[email protected]>
Date: 11/22/16 3:07 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PSES] Public view of this email server?
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-->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
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