- From: Ted Guild <ted@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 22:45:26 -0400
- To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Cc: "Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu" <kanghaol@oupeng.com>, W3C Site Comemnts <site-comments@w3.org>
On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 21:11 -0500, Ian Jacobs wrote: > > I've long noticed that the .mbox files of a public mailing list > (linked > > from any arhive under the title "Mailbox format") are Member-only. I > > believe it is some kind of mistake, but I still want to get nod from > the > > W3C Team before I share those files, which are useful for a newcomer > of > > a list. > My understanding is that the mbox source files are not public for a > reason. I have > added Ted Guild if you have further questions. This was the whole point of the NDA hoop we went through... you have your nod to analyze what you can from our archives with the permissions we gave your account. We deliberately do not make full, raw emails available publicly as they contain more and arguably personal/sensitive data not exposed in the html archives. The html archives only give a pertinent subset of header data. We make the mboxes available to Members, "Invited Experts" participating in our Working Groups and those like yourselves we deem trustworthy. They are extremely convenient when catching up on a mailing list to be able to import portions into a mail client, respond with References and In-Reply-To, have history and threading for threads that might have started before joining a group. There is also quite a few deductions that can be made which is what we're interested in your assistance with. > Please do not share the mbox source files publicly at this time. Thank > you. -- Ted Guild <ted@w3.org> W3C Systems Team http://www.w3.org
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