Well, as no one has answered...
It's related to an incident not long ago where there was a complaint over a message posted here about a named individual (not going to rehash that whole issue). The message was objected to (very strongly) and the archives were made subscriber only; I guess to mitigate the matter (and obviously avoid future incidents of the same type).
I'm sure others can fill in more details than I can. Just answering the basic question.
Tom
On 5 April 2012 04:57, joseph seddon life_is_bitter_sweet@hotmail.co.ukwrote:
Is there any possibility of having question answered?
I am somewhat dissapointed at this list no longer being publically archived.
Seddon
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:32:21 +0100 From: richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] List archives
I think Mike can answer a few of these questions, but he's extremely busy over the weekend with conferences etc.
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On 30/03/2012 01:37, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 30 March 2012 01:33, HJ Mitchellhjmitchell@ymail.com wrote:
I thought you had to wait for approval by a list admin, but that
approval
was more-or-less automatic...
I just subscribed a new email address and I was able to read the archives immediately.
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