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

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2017-03-07 at 06:48 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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."

PS:

And btw. stop calling people who care about privacy "paranoid". I for
example decided not to hide my membership and email address.

Another question: Are you willing to become the one responsible for
providing such a list in the legal sense?