[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] AUR ToS (aka making AUR user names public)

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 22:46:14 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
>Let us emulate the forums, and provide a username list only accessible
>to logged-in AUR users.

So you recommend that AUR should deviate from the Arch related mailing
lists. Note, mailman mailing list could be set up to "The subscribers
list is only available to the list members" as done for
https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general and then the members
could decide on their own, if they are visible by this list [1].
However, https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general is set up to
"The subscribers list is only available to the list administrator".

So it was always the default and still is the default, not to provide
such lists. There are sane reasons why those options are available, but
we are at a point were nobody cares anymore about privacy and you
recommend that providing such a list is appropriate. For what reason?
Why not keeping what always was and still is default for Arch, simply
to respect privacy?

[1]
"Conceal yourself from subscriber list?

When someone views the list membership, your email address is normally
shown (in an obscured fashion to thwart spam harvesters). If you do not
want your email address to show up on this membership roster at all,
select Yes for this option."