Hi,
Considering the CoC, I'm refraining myself from talking too much about a certain individual.
As there seems to be some confusion as to how Daniel Pocock was able to access the subscriber emails of this list:
The list is visible to all subscribers here: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/roster/discussion
Having list membership visible to all subscribers is common practice, and virtually all public mailing list are configured to show this information on request. After all, the mailing list archive is also available, and by scraping the mailing list archive one would be able to gather a similar list…
However, I'm pretty sure that using this information in the way that Mr. Pocock did is very much not allowed under EU law. Maybe it's time to let the legal team handle this transgression and evaluate FSFE's legal options?
Cheers, Johannes
Hi all,
On 02.05.19 13:17, Johannes Zarl-Zierl wrote:
Considering the CoC, I'm refraining myself from talking too much about a certain individual.
As there seems to be some confusion as to how Daniel Pocock was able to access the subscriber emails of this list:
The list is visible to all subscribers here: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/roster/discussion
Having list membership visible to all subscribers is common practice, and virtually all public mailing list are configured to show this information on request. After all, the mailing list archive is also available, and by scraping the mailing list archive one would be able to gather a similar list…
as explained by Johannes, this list was available to all list-subscribers as it is common practice. However, we now changed the settings and list-subscribers are only visible for list-admins from now on.
However, I'm pretty sure that using this information in the way that Mr. Pocock did is very much not allowed under EU law. Maybe it's time to let the legal team handle this transgression and evaluate FSFE's legal options?
as already announced in the other mail, we get in contact with legal experts to act accordingly.
Best, Erik
On 02/05/2019 12:17, Johannes Zarl-Zierl wrote:
Hi,
Considering the CoC, I'm refraining myself from talking too much about a certain individual.
As there seems to be some confusion as to how Daniel Pocock was able to access the subscriber emails of this list:
The list is visible to all subscribers here: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/roster/discussion
Having list membership visible to all subscribers is common practice, and virtually all public mailing list are configured to show this information on request. After all, the mailing list archive is also available, and by scraping the mailing list archive one would be able to gather a similar list…
However, I'm pretty sure that using this information in the way that Mr. Pocock did is very much not allowed under EU law. Maybe it's time to let the legal team handle this transgression and evaluate FSFE's legal options?
Cheers, Johannes
Just to clarify as a subscriber to this list (lists.fsfe.org) I have no objection to the subscriber list or the archive.
I would like to add that I agree the legal team need to handle this.
Having the fellowship.eu e-mail mixed in with what I see as the official list at lists.fsfe.org, It is very confusing. As mentioned before some of the e-mails i am getting seem to have cc, to, from, reply to, I have never seen this in _any other_ e-mail list.
Paul