Re: Dysphagia?

Michael R. Bernstein wrote:
> In any event, archives are usually only accessible to list members,
>> unless the Site Admin makes them public.
>>     
>
> Why are the archives private? Can we make them public?
>   
That's a question for the NMLUG admins or Gary Sandine....if they choose 
to answer it.

FWIW as a list member (and in my experience managing numerous Mailman 
lists elsewhere; since I'm just an NMLUG member) making archives private 
usually ensures members don't have to censor/proofread their comments 
quite so much and prevents various web robots from eating up bandwidth 
regularly by doing wget on the archive repositories.  From my 
perspective, private archives encourage participation and list 
membership, rather than a model whereby people use public information 
without contribution/participation in problem-solving.  Invariably free 
resources tend to get abused/exploited.

Just my two cents,

-Nick


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