Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261643AbVADNh1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 08:37:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261631AbVADNh0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 08:37:26 -0500 Received: from users.linvision.com ([62.58.92.114]:26011 "HELO bitwizard.nl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261627AbVADNhJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 08:37:09 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:37:03 +0100 From: Erik Mouw To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org Cc: Adrian Bunk , Domen Puncer , lkml , Russell King Subject: Re: [patch] maintainers: remove moderated arm list Message-ID: <20050104133703.GF26584@harddisk-recovery.com> References: <20041225170825.GA31577@nd47.coderock.org> <20041225172155.A26504@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050103175438.GL2980@stusta.de> <20050104101843.GB26584@harddisk-recovery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organization: Harddisk-recovery.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1327 Lines: 32 On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:05:20PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > > It's not about sanity, it's about abiding the law (the UK Data > > Protection Act, in this particular case). As Russell King explained in > > this thread, there are such things as real life and politicians that > > make privacy laws. > > I've had this problem with many mailing lists not based in the UK, so > presumably that particular stupidity doesn't apply to them. However > sad the case of the arm lists, I'd like to know if there are more > basic problems involved that could explain my experience. The Data Protection Act is the UK implementation of a European Union directive. All EU member states (should) have similar laws. > It sounds like it would be an excellent idea not to host lists in the > UK though... s/UK/EU/. Like Russell already said: so far nobody volunteered to host all EU lists plus their administrators off shore, so we have to live with it. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/