- From: Ian B. Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:05:17 -0500
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Hello, As of September 2002, W3C is using a new system on its mailing lists, to obtain explicit approval from posters to include their messages in our mailing list archives on the Web. I have asked that this system be applied to www-tag. We have hundreds of archived lists and although we try to be clear about the purpose of a list whenever we refer to it, we can not control how others refer to our lists. Therefore there is always the possibility that someone will send a message to our lists without knowing it will be archived on our Web site. This system takes care of that problem by requiring explicit approval from each poster before allowing their message to be distributed to the list. For the vast majority of posters who do not mind having their messages available in our Web archives, there is an option to approve any future messages they may send to W3C mailing lists as well. A nice side effect of this system is that it helps to reduce spam on our lists, since spammers generally do not read the replies they receive (and many or most of the return addresses they use are bogus anyway.) More information on the archive approval system [1] is available. Thank you, - Ian [1] http://www.w3.org/2002/09/aa/ -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 718 260-9447
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