Re: [Gossip] Three questions

2003-11-07 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
I'd like to revisit the "Three Questions" at a slightly higher level. One of the questions was about privacy. Mail-Archive is fundamentally about public, not private information. In general, if it is private, one should not send it to Mail-Archive. For example, email addresses on message bodies a

Re: [Gossip] Three questions

2003-10-30 Thread Kristian Köhntopp
On Thursday 30 October 2003 00:22, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > I would be much happier if the list administrator is the one who > initiates the archival process for three reasons. First, forwarding > (also known as tunneling) a list can cause technical problems with > Mail-Archive's sorting engine. S

Re: [Gossip] Three questions

2003-10-30 Thread Kristian Köhntopp
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 21:34, Earl Hood wrote: > > Since the vast majority of these types of statements are being prepared > > withi n > > few days of the issueing of the original statement, a 3000 messages > > window is > > > > just fine. If it isn't, that's tough luck... > > But, ignoring j

Re: [Gossip] Three questions

2003-10-29 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
Looks like Earl beat me to many of the same answers. Mail-Archive decisions and policies are made using my own (hopefully good) judgement and my understanding of applicable US law. -Jeff ___ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archiv

[Gossip] Three questions

2003-10-29 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
>Question the first: How does mail-archive.org act when a reply to one >mail is sent very much later, say one to five years? The message will >be a reply to the original message, with In-Reply-To headers and >everything else set correctly, and will be part of the mailing-list >that mail-archive.or

Re: [Gossip] Three questions

2003-10-29 Thread Earl Hood
On October 29, 2003 at 21:55, Kristian =?iso-8859-15?q?K=F6hntopp?= wrote: > > And, IMHO, the German law you refer to should not have been > > passed. > > I understand from a previous discussion on SlashDot that the concepts behind > this particular law are very foreign to people in the US. I

Re: [Gossip] Three questions

2003-10-29 Thread Kristian Köhntopp
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 20:04, Earl Hood wrote: > As for the German law, it has no jurisdiction with the U.S., where > mail-archive is located. That is one particular reason why I chose mail-archive.org as a destination site for the mailing list as opposed to any site within the same juris

Re: [Gossip] Three questions

2003-10-29 Thread Earl Hood
(Note, I do not run mail-archive.com, but I familiar with some its software) On October 29, 2003 at 19:03, Kristian =?iso-8859-15?q?K=F6hntopp?= wrote: > Question the first: How does mail-archive.org act when a reply to one > mail is > sent very much later, say one to five years? The message w

[Gossip] Three questions

2003-10-29 Thread Kristian Köhntopp
Question the first: How does mail-archive.org act when a reply to one mail is sent very much later, say one to five years? The message will be a reply to the original message, with In-Reply-To headers and everything else set correctly, and will be part of the mailing-list that mail-archive.org i