[pydotorg-www] Repeated outages of python.org

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Michael Foord wrote:
> On 25/07/2011 10:10, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> Michael Foord wrote:
>>> On 25/07/2011 09:56, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>>> Could one of the list admins please turn the list archive
>>>> of the pydotorg-www list into a private one ?
>>>>
>>>> I don't think it's a good idea to let our setup information leak
>>>> to the Internnet via search engines.
>>> The *point* of pydotorg-www is that it is a public list. Private
>>> information should be sent to pydotorg not pydotorg-www.
>> I was only talking about the archives, not making it a private
>> list altogether.
> Sure, but losing public archives, and the ability to use search engines
> to search the archives is a big loss.
> 
> We don't make the archives of other public lists private because someone
> sent an email they shouldn't have done - in fact we generally refuse to
> even remove those emails from the archive.

Right, but this mailing list is special in the sense that it
discusses an important piece of the Python infrastructure.

Unlike other mailing lists where such leakage usually only has impact
on the one accidentally sending it, it can cause potential harm to
the PSF servers in case of this list.

BTW: How often do you actually search on this mailing list ?

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