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Date:      Sun, 08 May 2005 01:44:06 +0200
From:      Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl>
To:        Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE!
Message-ID:  <20050507234406.GD1896@Alex.lan>
In-Reply-To: <a316ff6d04c9656a836291c194d47777@chrononomicon.com>
References:  <20050506103934.10FA34BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> <20050506105433.GA84877@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <2410174336.20050506130648@wanadoo.fr> <20050506132709.GA77760@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <1171865367.20050506204334@wanadoo.fr> <a316ff6d04c9656a836291c194d47777@chrononomicon.com>

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On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 11:16:02AM -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> 
> On May 6, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> 
> >Roland Smith writes:
> >
> >>On the page where you subscribe to a mailing list there is a link to 
> >>the
> >>list archives. The existance to this link implies a public accessible
> >>archive of the list. If you don't like that, don't subscribe.
> >
> >You cannot be sure that subscribers have read it unless you require 
> >them
> >to take explicit action to confirm that they have read it.
> 
> Part of me likes that attitude.  You assume users are too stupid to use 
> computers even if they're trying to tackle FreeBSD.

I would use the word lazy. Yes the law assumes users are lazy.



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