[lbo-talk] Gmane (was: lbo RSS feed)

[David]

I've been reading lbo-talk as a newsgroup on
www.gmane.org for a couple of years, and much prefer
it to receiving huge amounts of mail or a lengthy
digest.  Gmane also provides some other goodies like
an RSS feed, a free archive, etc.  I suspect that
other people were also using it - and that others
would if they new about it.

lbo-talk is no longer available on Gmane, however;
Doug mentioned that he and Jordan had asked for it to
be removed because of the "occassional but urgent
necessity to remove posts from the archive".
(http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20050620/013121.html)

While I understand that desire, I wonder if we are
losing quite a lot of free, useful functionality to
enable something that happens very rarely, and that,
in fact shouldn't really be necessary at all.  The
welcome to lbo-talk message does say:

"Please note that all posts to the list are archived,
are accessible to the public, and are quickly indexed
by Google and other web indexes. So if you've got
anonymity concerns, it's best to use an email address
that hides your identity."

In the event that something really does have to be
removed, the Gmane administrator will do it if given
the message numbers.  It is also possible to
auto-expire your own messages.  A number of other
concerns that list owners might have about gmane are
addressed in the faq (http://gmane.org/faq.php).

If there are any concerns that aren't covered, I would
be willing to work with the Gmane people to see if
they can be addressed.

David.

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