Re: [patch] maintainers: remove moderated arm list

Pavel Machek
2005-01-09T20:31:49Z

Hi!

> > Sounds great, but _every single time_ I've ever gotten one of those
> > "your message is awaiting moderation" messages from such a list, it's
> > inevitably followed a few hours/days later by a "your message has been
> > rejected" message. In every case, the message I sent was definitely a
> > no-brainer to allow, so I can only guess that either the moderation
> > system is broken, or the moderators are.
>
> It's not about sanity, it's about abiding the law (the UK Data
> Protection Act, in this particular case). As Russell King explained in
> this thread, there are such things as real life and politicians that
> make privacy laws.
>
> On the linux-arm* lists, we make no difference in intention: if you're
> not subscribed, it means you didn't agree to your messages being
> publicly archived (i.e.: you didn't agree to your privacy being
> violated), and to avoid legal hassles later on, we can't accept your
> post.
>
> The legal hassles I'm talking about are not a theoretical thing, there
> have been successful requests from posters to have their messages
> removed from other mailing lists archives in the past. Yes, I know
> that's stupid, and yes, I know a mailing list maintainer can't do
> anything against other people archiving his list, but the law says
> otherwise.

What about allowing all messages with X-Okay-to-archive: yes header
even without subscription?
Pavel

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