Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:26:08 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
Cc: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
       Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [patch] maintainers: remove moderated arm list
Message-ID: <20050109202608.GA4423@elf.ucw.cz>
References: <20041225170825.GA31577@nd47.coderock.org> <20041225172155.A26504@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050103175438.GL2980@stusta.de> <buosm5hwn5u.fsf@mctpc71.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> <20050104101843.GB26584@harddisk-recovery.com>
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Hi!

> > Sounds great, but _every single time_ I've ever gotten one of those
> > "your message is awaiting moderation" messages from such a list, it's
> > inevitably followed a few hours/days later by a "your message has been
> > rejected" message.  In every case, the message I sent was definitely a
> > no-brainer to allow, so I can only guess that either the moderation
> > system is broken, or the moderators are.
> 
> 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.
> 
> On the linux-arm* lists, we make no difference in intention: if you're
> not subscribed, it means you didn't agree to your messages being
> publicly archived (i.e.: you didn't agree to your privacy being
> violated), and to avoid legal hassles later on, we can't accept your
> post.
> 
> The legal hassles I'm talking about are not a theoretical thing, there
> have been successful requests from posters to have their messages
> removed from other mailing lists archives in the past. Yes, I know
> that's stupid, and yes, I know a mailing list maintainer can't do
> anything against other people archiving his list, but the law says
> otherwise.

What about allowing all messages with X-Okay-to-archive: yes header
even without subscription?
								Pavel

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