On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:00:42PM +0000, Moray Allan wrote: > Wouldn't it be better for people interested in opening the -private > archives to try a pure opt-in approach first? (Which wouldn't require > any change to current policies.) If most of the archive should be published, that's more of a burden on both the people going through it and on the people who've posted in the past, since the default answer would then be the wrong one. As a first pass, looking at the 2002/11 archives (ie, the most recent stuff that could be declassified if something like this had already passed), I count 403 messages that might be interesting, 91 that aren't (vavation, spam, etc). See master:~ajt/d-p.200211 and master:~ajt/d-p.200211.boring. > I can see an argument in favour of publishing a redacted version of the > whole archive (with e.g. phone numbers and addresses removed) after a > long period (e.g. 10 years), but if only parts are to be made public > then I can't yet see why an opt-out rather than opt-in system is fair. If it's Debian's choice to determine how private -private is, then it's not a question of fairness -- it's a question of what's best and what's the least wasteful way of achieving that. (If it's not Debian's choice, whether legally or morally, then 10 years instead of 3 doesn't make any difference) Cheers, aj
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