If there's no problem, then we should restore the status quo ante bellum - not being a
problem is not a reason to not do (or undo) anything.
I think the members of this list are entitled to know when, why, by whom, and on whose
instruction or advice the archives were made subscriber-only, and I think we're owed
an explanation as to why nobody notified the list of this action.
Personally, I'm not especially fussed if the archives are public or private or what,
but it's not the sort of thing that should be done without so much as a by-your-leave
to the community - the list exists for the UK community, and the chapter and its board
should not be attempting to govern it (especially not in camera), however pure their
motives.
Harry
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From: James Farrar <james.farrar(a)gmail.com>
To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Friday, 6 April 2012, 0:31
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] List archives
The counter-argument is, of course, if the archives are trivially available, what is the
problem?
On Apr 5, 2012 11:20 PM, "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5 April 2012 23:10, Thomas Morton <morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Well; someone
just told me I was mistaken and that wasn't the reason. Sorry!
Perhaps that someone would like to tell us what the actual reason was?
All having the archives private does is make it more inconvenient.
Anyone can still access them by subscribing. They are still indexed by
search engines because there are unofficial archives elsewhere on the
web. What is the gain?
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