Hi Manuel Le 10/06/2013 19:53, Manuel Schneider a écrit : > 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.
Your approach of promoting mailboxes vs. redirects makes a lot of sense. If we achieve to do that for staff/board, we are on the secure side. Other email addresses are less critical... but we should keep a vigilant eye on that, we are responsible for our data... also if that could bother users. > 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. Great! Good evening Emmanuel _______________________________________________ http://wikimedia.ch Wikimedia CH website Wikimediach-l mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l
