public access to ukcrypto postings

[Julian T J Midgley]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Alison Wheeler wrote:

> Just posting a heads-up note to myself and others on here, but I hadn't
> previously been aware that postings on uk-crypto were read-available to all
> and sundry through the web until yesterday afternoon while doing a google
> found some postings I had made to here. Given some items have had
> confidential information in them a bit worrying...

Any public mailing list deserves to be treated as though it has publicly
available web archives whether it in fact has them or not.  Unless the
membership list is actively controlled, and only known individuals are
allowed to sign up, anyone can sign up and create such a web archive
whether the maintainers of the list do so or not.

It is foolish in the extreme to publish anything to a mailing list which
allows the general public to sign-up that you wouldn't want widely
disseminated (via the web or any other means).

I don't see anything at all to worry about ;-)

Julian

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Julian T. J. Midgley                      http://www.xenoclast.org/
Cambridge, England.                          PGP Key ID: 0xBCC7863F