Some years ago, Amy Stinson posted on this mailing list a short notice on List Etiquette. Is there something more substantial accessible from the WEB now. Here in France, we do have a hard discussion on the use of ethnicity in statitistics and its usefulness and its discriminatory aspects. The discussion escaped recently from the scientific world (scientific reviews) into the french media: books, news-papers (Le Monde, Lib�ration, most of them), TV, reviews, radio etc. because some aspects are very political. Some of my colleagues are trying to put the discussion back on a scientific mailing list which just started but is successful because of the variety of the first subscribers. The etiquette of this list is not clearly enough advertised and the owners of the list are facing some problems which are probably common to others list owners. For example, when someone wants to subscribe to a list [EMAIL PROTECTED] is it enough to receive a message from an automated list server telling you that your subscription message has been sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" where foo-owner is not the names of the owners but an alias to some hypothetical live people? I think that it is enough if the identity of the owners is revealed in the answer to the subscription request, but other potential subscribers might be hesitant. On the opposite, in this particular list on ethnicity, the owners received a subscription request from a meaningless email address without any mention of the name and institution of the subscriber. Asking for the ethnic origins of the subscriber might be a litle too provocative, but at least, asking for name and institute is probably necessary and sufficient. Where are the usual limits? We know that some people, from the press (journalists), from the court (lawers), from the political spheres who have been concerned by the recents controversial attacks, want to have access to the mails without subscribing to the list (voyeurisme). Can it be stated, for example, that messages posted to the list should not be forwarded? In summary, does anybody from list-managers-owners's list have ever lived such experience and written an etiquette useful for the owners and the subscribers. In addition, the owners of the list on ethnicity, put a selection of the messages posted to the list directly on the WEB. Many members from the list disagree because of this selection. Question: is it possible to archive on the WEB all the messages posted to this list? I know that programs like Mhonarc do it but how to retrict the access only to members of the mailing list? For example, is it possible to use the password which is sent after a subscription to a listproc (this password is used for an interactive internet service, ilp, to retrieve old messages) as a password in the .htaccess files. Is it operational to do it, or should the owners of the ethnicity list change from listproc to a more WEB oriented mailing list? What are them, preferably in the public domain? -- Nicolas Brouard Institut national d'�tudes d�mographiques Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sauvy.ined.fr/~brouard -- Nicolas Brouard Institut national d'�tudes d�mographiques Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sauvy.ined.fr/~brouard
