[Buddha-l] Make the subscription list visible to subscribers?

[Richard Hayes]

Dear denizens,

A subscriber has asked me about the possibility of making the buddha-l subscription list visible to all subscribers, as it used to be in days past. I have prowled around the dark subterranean passageways of Buddha-l control tower and discovered that there it is possible to set the subscription list to one of three settings:

	Visible only to the administrator (the default setting)
	Visible to all subscribers
	Visible to the entire universe, including God

I think the third of those settings would be unwise, since it would allow outsiders to "harvest" our subscription list for spam jockeys. I have no opinion about the second option, so I seek your wise counsel. The only information I have to offer at the moment is that if a subscriber really does not want to be visible to anyone but the administrators, it is possible to hide his or her subscription from view. So even if the subscription list were visible to all subscribers, those who wished not to be visible to others could opt for individual privacy. (As for as I know, it is not possible to hide from the administrators of the list.)

Let me know what you think, either by responding to this message and discussing it with other subscribers, or by sending a message to buddha-l-owner at mailman.swcp.com. I'll check the archives in about a week to see whether a consensus has emerged among the denizenship.


Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes
rhayes at unm.edu