Re: [Thinkpad] Nabble

How about this:

JUST GO AWAY

Elijah, can you please unsubscribe this guy? This is a private members list,
who invited him anyway?
----- Original Message -----
From: "R Morris" <rod@nabble.com>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Nabble

>
> elijah wright wrote:
>
>>Now, if they start selling archives of the thinkpad list or something
>>similar - we can be all up on their asses. ;) No one's agreed to
>>anything but free and fair access to information.
>
> We have no intention of selling archives or email address or anything
> of the sort. I reviewed the Terms of Use and quite frankly, I don't
> see how it even applies to mail list archives. This verbage is common
> for forum type sites, but it requires a user to register and would apply
> only to local posts as far as I can tell.
>
>>I do find the Nabble folks' web site rhetoric a little bit disgusting and
>>somewhat deceitful, but they're not really doing anything overtly *wrong*.
>>In an abstract sort of way, it is kinda nice of them to store backups of
>>the list archives for us. ;)
>
> We're going to be re-doing most of home page and rheoric over the next
> few weeks as we update to the next major release. I don't like a lot of it
> either.
> Mixing the terms mail lists and forums is one that bugs me. I'd welcome
> input
> as to specfics that you find deceitful and I'll get these areas addressed
> with
> clear language.
>
>>I also agree with the list posters who feel that talking to this Rod
>>Morris fellow is like talking to a brick wall. He doesn't seem to "get
>>it", and that's bothersome. I've felt periodically harassed by the tone
>>and uncompromising spirit of his posts - also not cool.
>
> I apologize for my hurried responses and cavalier tone. I'd reply to
> others
> that expressed concerns and offer my apologies directly, but I don't want
> to
> waste anymore bandwidth on the list.
>
> It seems that two questions that were unanswered were exactly how to
> have posts not archived and how one could do that for a specific archive
> like Nabble. The latter is just not possible unless we implement some sort
> of special site specific heade or discontinue the archive all togetherr.
> And
> the first is not as simple as it would appear.
>
> The syntax is easy. You just need to add this header:
>
> X-No-Archive: yes
>
> The problem that I found this morning is that the most common mail
> clients don't support custom headers very easily if at all. The most
> common
> workaround to solve this problem is to allow the header
> to be entered as the first line of the message and then the archival
> service
> parses the message to check for the header in the body. We're looking
> at adding this feature and we'll also be creating a separate FAQ that
> deals with these and other mail list specific questions.
>
> Regards,
> Rod Morris
> Nabble.com
>
>
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