mathieu stumpf guntz <psychoslave@culture-libre.org > wrote:
I think it was important to re-explain all those points so that the community, which is - again - unnecessarily taken as witness, is not deceived by a scenario built from scratch. Again, to discredit the movement by such erroneous but public accusations still shows that only personal interests and vainness matter in this conflict with some people.
I seize the opportunity to ask: what is the legal status of the list? Is it considered public?
I mean, it's easy to subscribe for anyone, but you still have to subscribe. And as far as I know, accessing archives require to login. Now there are other website which make crawled archives publicly accessible, but just because some do that doesn't mean it's legal.
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Accessing the archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/ does not require logging in (and AFAIR never has), but even if it did, for all practical (legal) purposes this mailing list is a public venue, if only because anybody can subscribe to it, thus not limiting the audience in any meaningful way.
Tim