On 9/8/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Armed Blowfish wrote:
On 08/09/2007, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Not archiving would hamper the utility of the list to the project. Remember that this is a work list for a particular project; having old messages in an official, referable place is way too useful in practice. There is no reason I can see that is helpful to the project to stop archiving.
Next option: 'Would it be better to let individual users decide whether or not they want their messages archived? If a patch were written to grant this capability, would it be used?' (quoting self from earlier)
Having a patchwork of archived and non-archived material would produce silly results. If you opted out, just imagine how meaningless the flames that you have received would be without the original context. ;-)
Ec
A mailing list that serves a purpose to discuss issues of a public site, such as Wikipedia is, should always be straight archived. Allowing opt out and other options gives moderators an Orwellian option that I can't see any point in.
KP