[At-Large] Tracking of our messages - not a privacy violation.. ?

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By the way, not sure of the definition of new. It's been on some lists for 
over a year now.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Guerra" <lists at privaterra.info>
To: "At-Large Worldwide" <alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [At-Large] Tracking of our messages - not a privacy violation.. 
?


> John & Vini:
>
> My interest is to - start a discussion on this, and from there see
> what consensus (if any) emerges on the issue.
>
> My personal view, is that a new practice was introduced - one that
> wasn't sufficiently explained nor discussed before the weekly
> summaries started to appear. How and for what purposes the stats are
> being used, might be legally required in certain jurisdictions.
>
> Great to see this is being discussed. I am keen to hear views from
> others - and from there, identify  any   recommendations (if any) that
> should be sent to staff and/or the board.
>
> regards
>
> Robert
>
>
>
> On 11-Apr-08, at 11:51 AM, John Levine wrote:
>
>>> I look forward to hearing what others think about this
>>
>> Monthly posting summaries are common on lists at many organizations
>> such as the IETF with participants from around the world.  They're a
>> useful way to track the health of a list.  Since the summaries are
>> sent to the same list where everyone has already seen all of the
>> messages, it's hard to think of any reasonable basis on which this
>> would be a privacy violation.
>>
>>> and what steps (if any) we might want to take ..
>>
>> None I can think of.
>>
>> R's,
>> John
>>
>> PS: Don't look at this URL.
>>
>> http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org/
>>
>
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