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Thomas Bushnell removed from Hurd development

Posted Nov 19, 2003 19:01 UTC (Wed) by jnelson (subscriber, #6693)
Parent article: Thomas Bushnell is no longer Hurd maintainer

What I'd like to know is why the *archives* to various mailing lists are closed to the general public.

Example:

http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-prog

While registration may be free, it doesn't seem to jive with my idea of "completely free and open".

Then again, apparently discussion is not completely "free and open", either.

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Thomas Bushnell removed from Hurd development

Posted Nov 19, 2003 19:15 UTC (Wed) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link]

well often time lists are closed simply to hamper spam address culling.

I do that all the time to cut down on crap spam. Anyone can subscribe to the list, disable mail delivery and view the archives all they want.

I don't think it is a crazy or inhibiting term.

Thomas Bushnell removed from Hurd development

Posted Nov 19, 2003 20:40 UTC (Wed) by dd9jn (subscriber, #4459) [Link]

Most projects have private lists to talk about things which should not end up in large discussions, for security reasons and for political reasons (i.e. the "enemy" should not know how you are preparing)