[MyData & Open Data] list membership

[Song, Stephen]

Hi Stef,

My question was triggered becuase the 'default' on other OKFN lists appears
to be that the list membership is available to list members.

In terms of right to privacy on a list, I defend your right to post
anonymously.  However, it is my experience that within a community of
practice, which is perhaps what a good list aspires to, trust helps to
build consensus and to facilitate knowledge sharing.

Speaking from my personal experience, I find it harder to launch a message
into the void without knowing who the recipients are.  Also what I am
prepared to say to an anonymous audience is different to from what I am
prepared to say to people I know.  More trust leads to more sharing.

With that I wish you and every other person on the list, whoever they may
be, the very best wishes of the season and look forward to re-engaging
anonymously or otherwise in the new year.

Cheers... Steve

P.S.



On 24 December 2013 09:59, stef <s at ctrlc.hu> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 03:24:04PM -0400, Song, Stephen wrote:
> > A quick sidebar question.  For some reason, the membership of
> > mydata-open-data is only available to the administrators of the list.
> >  Assume that an oversight?
>
> how does that make sense?  why do you want to force anyone to disclose his
> membership? the people who are actively posting on the list, are known by
> all,
> the ones, who are lurking, will be lurking anyway, if they do not want
> their
> membership disclosed they can still lurk on the web mailing list archive.
> if i
> want to post despite such a policy, i'll register a new emailaddress. but
> all
> this hassle makes this list much less attractive for privcacy conscious
> people
> and as such this introduces a kind of contra-selection of this list
> membership, and thus biases the discussions on this list. actually we
> should
> reverse this, and make it hard for non-privacy-conscious people to join ;)
>
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