<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Tom Hughes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@compton.nu">tom@compton.nu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Frederik Ramm wrote:<br>
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> I recently asked board@osmf for a list of members and received the<br>
> answer that providing such a list might clash with members' privacy; but<br>
> they said they thought that creating a members-only mailing list would<br>
> be a good idea (I expect this to be done any day now). So I guess that,<br>
> once the list is set up, if you find you receive mails from that list<br>
> then you are a member ;-)<br>
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</div>I was going to say that they were absolutely right not to give it to you<br>
as it would certainly never have occurred to me that anybody could ask<br>
for list and I wouldn't have expected it to be given out, but...<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote></div>The fact is that we don't really know whether we have an obligation to publish the list of members or not. When I incorporated the Foundation I didn't know the answer so I put some words on the site to say that by default we'll protect your privacy but we might have a legal obligation to disclose. As of now we still don't know the actual answer because nobody has been motivated enough to find out.<br>
<br>We've only ever had one request for the list, from Frederik, and he said he'd be happy with a mailing list for all members instead, so we still haven't bothered to find out the answer. It probably rests on the definition of what a member is.<br>
<br>80n<br><br>