Hi folks. I'm ~dvd, if you hadn't already seen my embarrassing late night "subscribe" attempt.
I have the good fortune of working for the Internet Archive, which means I am a person who has the ability to aggressively crawl the tilde club and related websites, with these new fangled "updates in the last 24h" CGI scripts.
But I believe that the best archiving is done with full consent. This email list has been a welcome respite to the chore of catching up on my tweets. The archive I work for was formed in the very early days. Most of us here are aware of the current failures of that wild west period's philosophy, but also welcome some kind of revisit. I think of the email lists in particular as far more sacrosanct, in privacy terms. So:
I've, uhh, never gone wrong "just asking questions" _before_ doing something. Does anybody even want that kind of potential pressure? I was thrilled like a sailor when I learned the Library of Congress was archiving Twitter. (I was only slightly disappointed that they stopped archiving it in the jack-please-ban-the-nazis era.)
~dvd