On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 10:49 am, Shal Farley wrote:
The argument on the other side was based on the availability more than the permanence
I recall it differently, and also differ with what you say here. The email addresses are *available* to all group members who choose to receive messages via email, whether or not the group is private, and no matter how they manage to become a member of the group. Any member of any group will see, via their email, all email addresses posted to the group, if they read via email.
The issue is permanance. The argument was that the web archive is permanent but emails are fleeting, so that *future* members, people who were not members at the time the email was posted, would be able to see those emails via the web.
I argued that the argument was backwards, and that, conversely, it's emails that are more permanent than the web archive. Messages in the web archive can be deleted, but anyone who receives an email can keep it for as long as they want to, and deletion of a group message does nothing to affect that.
The real issue was permanence in the web archive as it relates to *future members*.
J
