Re: [patch] maintainers: remove moderated arm list

Erik Mouw
2005-01-04T13:37:27Z

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:05:20PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I've had this problem with many mailing lists not based in the UK, so
> presumably that particular stupidity doesn't apply to them. However
> sad the case of the arm lists, I'd like to know if there are more
> basic problems involved that could explain my experience.

The Data Protection Act is the UK implementation of a European Union
directive. All EU member states (should) have similar laws.

> It sounds like it would be an excellent idea not to host lists in the
> UK though...

s/UK/EU/. Like Russell already said: so far nobody volunteered to host
all EU lists plus their administrators off shore, so we have to live
with it.

Erik

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