- From: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:06:58 -0500
- To: www-archive@w3.org
Suppose you have a large document relevant to the Web that you wish to give multiple colleagues access to. All the people you *know* you want to get it to are on some mailing list. But not everyone on the list would want to read it, and some on the list have slow network connections. If there is no reason an arbitrary member of the public *shouldn't* have access to this document, www-archive may meet your needs. If you address an email message to <www-archive@w3.org> that message will be archived on the Web. where the general public has access to it. Despite the fact that you sent it as an email or email attachment, to an address that looks like a mailing list address, it will not be distributed to anyone by email or any other push protocol. This way people with slow connections are not burdened with a big mailgram, people with fast connections can casually look at what you are providing and people with slow connections can apply a grain of salt before accessing. You need to authorize archiving. At the time of this writing, www-archive is one of the mailboxes where this is being applied. Watch your inbound mail for a message From: W3C List Manager <aa-sender@w3.org> Subject: IMPORTANT: your message to www-archive This message, if it is genuine, will offer you the URI for a short form by which you affirm your permission to have W3C archive and publicly redistribute your message. Do check that the URI you have been offered is in the form http://www.w3.org/Mail/review?id=... where what follows the "id=" is a UUID-like long alphanumeric string. If you have earlier filed a blanket authorization, you won't be bothered for each post. Al
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