Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 17:45:17 +0100 From: Chris Hodgins <christopher.hodgins@gmail.com> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Permission for archiving in mailing list FAQ Message-ID: <63c3899e050507094541695e43@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050507162228.GD622@gothic.blackend.org> References: <20050507155056.GB13491@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20050507162228.GD622@gothic.blackend.org>
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On 5/7/05, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 05:50:56PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > WRT the recent discussion/flamefest regarding archiving of mailing list > > messages on freebsd-questions, I propose the following addition to > > section 1.4 of the mailing list FAQ: > > > > By subscribing to a mailing list you give permission for your > > messages to be archived. If you do not want your messages to be save= d > > in the freebsd.org archives, add a header ``X-No-archive: yes'' or > > ``X-Archive: no'' to your messages. If this header is not present in > > your messages, permission for archival is implied. The FreeBSD > > project has no control over archives that others can create. > > > > It might also be a good idea to reference the FAQ in the subscription > > pages. > > >=20 > Please, please and please, do not bring this thing here. >=20 > If you read every message from the author of this thread (have a look at > all his threads), you will see that the problem is elsewhere... >=20 > Marc >=20 I did try to read most of them but my eyes started to go a little blurry. :) Even just a message that says you acknowledge that this is a public mailing list and posts will be archived and made available publically when you press the submit button. At least if the fix is there we can simply point at the subscription page and that would be the end of it. A bit late for this guy but this keeps coming up. Chris
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