SCRAPPY (the student list), UTCINFO, and UTCSTAFF are publically posted on
the raven archives. This was done as a public service and in respect for the
Tennessee open records law.

Some raven mailing lists are archived (and some are not) and some are
publically listed (and some are not). The choice is essentially up to the
owner of the mailing list.

This is similiar to what many other universities do with mailing lists. For
example, you can see UT Knoxville's mail list archives at:
http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/index.html or Notre Dame at
http://listserv.nd.edu/archives/index.html

You can also search the combined catalogs of archives of many mailing lists
across the world at the Lsoft web site: http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html
(Lsoft makes the listserv mailing list software that is run on raven.)

Richard


John Matthews wrote:

> Isn't this list effectively open to the general public? See this link:
> http://raven.utc.edu/archives/utcstaff.html
>
> Looks pretty open to me, not just to TN taxpayers but to EVERYONE who
> has 'net access. I'm not surprised at all that the press (campus or
> otherwise) has access to what's said here. I tried from two separate
> off-campus network connections and was able to get to the page, so it's
> not even filtering access by UTC IP address (to make it internal to
> UTC's network).
>
> For reference here are several lists archived:
> http://raven.utc.edu/archives/
>
> Not all lists are public. I notice that at least one department-specific
> list of which I'm a member isn't in the archives.
>
> Also, lest you think that people might not stumble upon this
> independently, a Google search that specifically searches utc.edu will
> find many UTCSTAFF posts. Just try it:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Autc.edu+utcstaff
>
> I bet if you refine that search you can find some of your own writings
> indexed by Google. It does appear, however, that recent posts cannot be
> found via this method: I wasn't able to coax Google to find any of the
> posts I've made since I subscribed at the beginning of the semester.
>
> Truly, what you write online may never disappear.
>
> Regards,
> matt
>
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>


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