Ken Burnside wrote: >> What's a "private" group? Are you saying that evil people can't access >> them and that, therefore, explicitly including your personal details is OK? > One where the archives can only be gotten to by people who have > subscribed to the list, as opposed to anyone with a web browser.
That is the theory. That is not the practice for either yahoogroups, or GoogleGroups. > And while it's an erroneous assumption that things are private until > stated otherwise, it is a COMMON erroneous assumption. Would it hurt > to add, on the sign up page: > > "Note: All mailing list archives are public. Anything you post here > will be archived for any web browser or search engine to archive." That is stated on the OOo website. > this, as I'd not been on a unix-style mailing list in close to a Unix-style? That is an RFC standard subscribe message. AFAIK, MSN groups are the only ones that don't honour that standard. Considering that it is run by microsoft, its ignoring of standards can be excused on the grounds that it is microsoft, and microsoft and standards are mutually exclusive terms. > If you're on a corporate VPN, "hundreds of users" might just be your > *department*. Even a corporate VPN doesn't mean that the data won't find its way out, and into the Internet at large. xan jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
