- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 07:36:08 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- cc: <www-archive@w3.org>
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Sandro Hawke wrote: > > > > On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Sandro Hawke wrote: > > > > > > Note: I have CC'd a public archive [1]. If you CC it on your reply, > > > > it will be permanently archived on the web and thus much easier for me > > > > to refer to and share with people. Feel free to omit it if you're > > > > more comfortable answering privately. Don't worry about addressing a > > > > wider audience in a CC'd reply; the archive is understood to simply > > > > contain e-mail that people are willing to have kept around for future > > > > reference. > > > > > > Note to self: this is a poor way to address this problem. Much better > > > would be to simply ask at the bottom: "May I archive your response on > > > the web as part of my research notes, or would you prefer I keep it > > > confidential?" > > > > I thought it worked quite well. Particularly as anyone replying and > > copying www-archive will get a msg from gerald's list archive permissions > > system, so advance warning is useful. > > But he didn't include it on his CC, and he didn't say anything about > it, and there was nothing in his mail that shouldn't be archived as > far as I can tell. > > Speaking of which, why didn't you keep www-archive in your cc? :-) Oh, oops, I meant to. No matter. Re-adding :) > > www-archive is an elegant hack, but it would sure be nice to just have > a proper shared database of e-mail! IMAP has some such facilities. Bristol Uni uses shared IMAP folders a lot. Seems to be a lot of overlap between IMAP and HTTP though; maybe someone'll do a Web-service based workalike sometime. Dan > > ps. this is my favourite mailing list... > > :-) > > [ Permission to publish this e-mail is hereby granted. ] > -- mailto:danbri@w3.org http://www.w3.org/People/DanBri/
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