Am 10.06.2013 19:31, schrieb Emmanuel Engelhart: > I propose to invite all concerned users to: > * create a WMCH mailbox for them > * change the target email address to something more acceptable like > email box from the provider or european web mails like GMX. > > Would that be feasible? > Does something speaks against such type of restriction?
generally all users who have asked for a WMCH mail address are initially offered an IMAP mailbox and I normally tell people why this is better than a redirect - just out of practical reasons, put ideological / data security aside. Anyway, if it is the whish of the user to get his mail forwarded instead, who am I to deny it? Anything else - any restrictions - should be decided by the board. Just as a summary what we are talking about, after a short look on the mailserver: * 6 redirects to gmail (Google) (1 staff) * 1 redirect to Hotmail (Microsoft) (1 board) * 2 swiss domains whose MX records point to swiss mailservers (both board) * 5 addresses redirecting to the WMF To be honest: I understand and agree with your scepticism towards private data flowing through third parties which are bound to make benefit with that data (Google and Hotmail are free, and not because the are philantroph) even withing countries which are known to spy on their citizens. Anyway I am not sure that even if we were sure that our data is being spied at if it was valuable enough to force our volunteers to abandon their primary mail accounts. It is a different situation for the board, even though they are still volunteers they do deal with sensitive data, but that should not normally not be transfered via e-mail anyway. For the staff it is clear: that can only be a mailbox. So in that one case I am happy you made me aware of a problem. I will talk to that person. For myself I try to adopt a sceptic but pragmatic approach: Sometimes I use Google services but only where I have no good replacement (mainly Google spreadsheets) and then only for a temporary usage. I don't want to rely on it. I use it for a certain task, then I store the result elsewhere. Otherwise I use these services - this applies to all kind of Social Networks where we have the same scepticism for a different reason - with data I really and deliberately want to publish. So that data can't be "stolen" or misused anyway. /Manuel -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch _______________________________________________ http://wikimedia.ch Wikimedia CH website Wikimediach-l mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l
