[TOS] About the POSSE cohort list privacy settings

[Kevin Mark]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 11:15:59PM -0400, Mel Chua wrote:
> A heads-up, in the name of being transparent about privacy:
> 
> We've got a mailing list for the members of the 2011 POSSE cohort.
> The list membership is restricted for staff/participants in that
> particular POSSE (as it has been for all POSSE lists in the past),
> and after some discussion we've decided to make the list archives
> private as well. This is so that the members of the cohort have a
> virtual space where they can be more frank about what they're
> encountering during the school year; in case a tough situation comes
> up with a class, we can discuss it  without worry that a student or
> administrator might run across the conversation in a public archive,
> that we're violating student confidentiality or privacy laws, etc.
> 

Debian has a private ML and after much debate, they said it would be slowly
made public by declassifying/redacting material a few years old, but no one
wanted to do the work and so it has not gotten done and thus leading to the
material still being private. So do you think your list is going to be
permanently private?
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