Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:10:52 -0400
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: On Google and WSFA policy
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

ronkean at juno.com wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:08:29 -0400 Candy Madigan
> <candymadigan at mindspring.com> writes:
>
> > If this is going to become a matter of public record, I'll want to
> > be taken
> > off the mailing list.
>
> There is something to be said for having the list be purely
> conversational and thus not officially archived at all.  I would not
> object to such a policy.  Announcements which are posted to the list
> could continue to available on the website as announcements, rather than
> as archived messages.  But what if one or more list members chose to
> privately archive the messages?  I don't see any way to prevent that.
> Would there be any support for having a list policy that message content
> which has not otherwise been made public, shall not be disseminated
> outside WSFA?

While having no objection to that, I learned years ago -- pre-Internet --
that anything committed to print gains a life of its own.   And, with rare
exceptions, I keep that in mind whenever I write *anything*.

That said, there's little or nothing posted to this list that *requires*
privacy (no one is confiding deep secrets here) -- it just comes down to the
comfort levels of the list members.  And no one likes to think that he or
she is being eavesdropped...even when in fact they aren't...if the
*potential* is there.

--Ted White