Peter Shute writes: > Ron Webb wrote: > > I will also wish to add some type of disclaimer that no one > > will probably give it much thought, but it will state that > > statements made are the of the sole responsibility of the > > author of the statement and they are not the official opinion > > of the corporation nor the union and the maintainer of the > > list does not archive messages. I'm sure I'll come up with > > much better wording than that but I'm sure you get the gist. > > This part could be tricky. Most list members will "save" > (i.e. forget to delete) at least some if not most of the messages > they receive. Lots of them will contain quoted material written by > other list members. In other words, none of you will have much > control over how much of what you say on the list will be available > to others later if they get access to list members' mailboxes.
That's certainly true, but I suppose Ron is mostly worried here about his *personal* liability as list admin, both legal and ethically to the members whose posts are supposed to be off-the-record. Compare http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/rbarip.html. Centralized list archives are an obvious target, and I suspect that subpoena'ing everyone in the company would be less likely to convince a judge. > Are these corporate mailboxes you'll be using, or private ones? > I've never used it, but you can have regular expression in ban_list > to prevent people subscribing with their work addresses. That's a good idea for dealing with corporate policy toward mailbox use, but as Jamie points out, if there's a court involved, anything can be subpoena'ed. Of course all of the above is based on US law, your venue may vary. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
