Christopher Mahan <chris_mahan@yahoo.com> wrote:

--- Anthere wrote:
>
> --- james duffy wrote:
> > Zoe wrote
> > >I really think that the mailing list pages should
> > be
> > >blocked from search engines.
> >
> > I agree. People need to be able to discuss matters
> > openly and frankly. It
> > really is nobody else's business but the people on
> > the mailing list what is
> > said on that list. Other email conversations aren't
> > accessible generally.
> > Why should this mailing list be available? Many
> > people don't realise that
> > what they say on the mailing list isn't private and
> > if they did might simply
> > opt out of it.
> >
> > JT
>
> Well...in case they did not know, now they do.
> Nothing said here is private.
> Nothing said on talk page is private either :-)

I agree. If people want to lead private lives, then the mailing list
is not for them.
It does not preclude them in participating to the W as an anon user,
however.

To use the legal term, there is no expectation of privacy in email.

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Christopher Mahan
chris_mahan@yahoo.com