Re: Some guy that evidently wants to be removed from the mailing list

On 18/09/2023 14:14, Nick Hall via Gramps-users wrote:
> On 18/09/2023 09:38, Peter Flynn wrote:
>> I wonder what the "privacy reasons" were.
> 
> I'm not sure.  When I go to the user management section it displays
> the message:
> 
> ---
>> [...] it is no longer possible for project admins to view the
>> member emails of their mailing lists.

Ambiguous: I wonder do they mean "email messages" or "email addresses"?

>> The SourceForge mailinglist admin pages for your project will allow
>> you to remove a specific email address 

That sounds right...

> Using the admin page to remove an email address always gives the same
> response:
> 
> "If that email address was on the list, it has now been
> unsubscribed."

...except that it's clearly untrue wrt Ken's address.

> This policy also makes migration to another provider difficult. The
> best we could do is announce the new list address in the old list.

Yes, if you can't get a list of all subscribers, the game is up.

However, their excuse:

>> As a result of the latest electronic messaging and privacy
>> requirements around the world,

sounds like they are using the GDPR as an excuse. Admins are permitted 
to see subject data, otherwise by now the entire planet's IT would have 
collapsed. I think sourceforge's worry is that they have no idea who the 
list admins are or what they would do. It's not the access that's the 
problem, it's the people having access :-)

Peter


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