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Re: successful build - i686-pc-cygwin
- To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: successful build - i686-pc-cygwin
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 09:38:23 -0400
- Cc: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>, overseers at gcc dot gnu dot org, dewar at gnat dot com, Richard dot Erlston at za dot didata dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <200107050223.TAA20801@racerx.synopsys.com> <orbsmzeef9.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:41:30AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>On Jul 4, 2001, Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.COM> wrote:
>>Exactly. Even if we want to make the "posting gives implicit
>>permission" argument, we have the problem that the individual doing the
>>posting is different from the organization that insists that all mail
>>from employees is confidential.
>
>If we made it clear our the web pages that posting to the list will get
>messages archived, we'd strengthen our argument. Even more if every
>first-time poster got a reply indicating that the mailing list is
>archived, and asking him to confirm the request to send the message to
>the list, and stating that sending any further messages to the list
>implies agreement with these terms.
>
>Having a documented procedure for employers to request the removal from
>the archives of messages regarded as confidential would probably help
>too.
>
>I wonder if whatever mailing-list software we've got at gcc.gnu.org has
>built-in support for this kind of one-time warning to posters, not only
>to subscribers.
ezmlm is pretty flexible so it wouldn't be hard to add something like this
but I don't think that it has something that could be implemented out
of the box.
I've thought about doing something similar for the cygwin mailing lists,
too.
cgf