[OSM-talk] Mailing Lists for MOM development

Rory McCann rory at technomancy.org
Wed Aug 20 10:49:14 BST 2008


Patrick Aljord wrote:
> Heh, I forgot about those, you do realize though that even if the
> mailing list are not hosted on google, as long as they are public
> Google will index them and collect all the data they can as the "Big
> Brother" they are. When it comes to public web service there is no way
> to avoid the Google (unless you use the robot.txt but that doesn't fly
> with mailing lists).

The problem isn't that Google can read your data, this is a public 
mailing list. The problem is that google controls your list. In order 
for people to sign up to your list, they need to enter an agreement with 
Google. With your own hosted email list you are the one in control.

Rory




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