filePro Resources (was something else)

[Bill Vermillion]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 10:19:11AM -0700, Bill Campbell thus spoke:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> ...
> >> Hey, I take exception to that. Haven't been around the last few
> >> weeks like I had been, but I still pop in. :) But yeah, I've
> >> never once heard an argument there.
> >
> >So why have them here.  That means that the archived lists have all
> >the flames in them and the archives are a more permanent record of
> >what filePro is.  The archive is a bit behind at celestial
> >but the January archive had 1343 messages, while February
> >only had 422.

> The archives are up to date, just different as Mailman maintains them on-
> line at http://lists.celestial.com/pipermail/filepro-list/.

I was looking in the original  pub/mailing-lists/yyyymm area or the
linkes NNmm.

> I haven't had time to see how these are stored so that old
> archives could be put into the Mailman archives or vice-versa.

The old archives go back for about 10 years.  My thoughts is that
they should be coalesced into one area, with a README in one of
them [and possibly a link] pointing to the other area.

> >I've always felt it was better to have loud arguments spoken
> >instead of written down, the former are forgotten and the latter
> >can live to haunt you seemingly forever.

> Good point!

> I just had a message this morning from a list member who was
> upset because something he posted to this list recently showed
> up in a google search on his e-mail address. How did it get
> listed by google? He asked.

> I don't know how google got it, but can't say I'm surprised.
> Nobody on the list has a google gmail address yet, but there
> are several on aol, hotmail, yahoo, msn, and similar sites. Who
> knows what their mail admins do.

I wonder if someone is posting the list to an internal webserver -
or a similar approach - so all people in one place can read them.
That could easily get archived.

> Remember that Internet mail goes through many sites in plain
> text, and anybody along the way can look at it. If you wouldn't
> like to see your message on the front page of the New York
> Times, you probably shouldn't send it in an uncrypted e-mail.

Better yet never put anything you don't want known into any
electronic device.  In a multi-person office you can never be sure
that someone may have accessed your machine and put in a keyboard
sniffer.  That's happened.

> There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by reading.
> The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee
> on the electric fence for themselves. -- Will Rogers

Which may have inspried the song by Ren & Stimpy  "Don't whiz
on the electric fence".  I still chuckle when I hear that one.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com