I see no reason to switch the archive to private. The public (pre-establishment) discussion list should remain as open as possible, allowing people to choose whether they want to read it with a subscription or through the archive. Further, it also allows linking to posts in the archive e.g. on meta.
If issues of confidentiality arise (though I doubt much will come up, from my experience I know that it is possible to establish a chapter entirely on a public list, a private list / mail alias for the "core team" should be created (which could be transformed into a board-list after establishment).
Regards Michael
On 4/20/07, Nicholas Moreau nicholasmoreau@gmail.com wrote:
Current this list has public archiving--you don't have to be a member to access the old messages.
We could have private archiving, which forces people to register, and thus messages aren't indexed by Google.
I don't see any reason to have private archiving, but while I'm going through the preferences, thought I'd bring it up.
Nick
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