Re: Regarding cbm-hackers archive/frontend at Nabble

I’m a little surprised that GDPR is a concern when there is no legal entity and no business, but I guess that probably just makes the individual liable. Cbm-hackers has never had an expectation of privacy, and the identifiers that would nominally be considered sensitive have always been public (names, email address, IP addresses from headers), and users by virtue of using it broadcast that information to all other users everywhere.

How large is the archive? Maybe we could just throw a light sail instance up or the like in CONUS. 

Justin

> On Jun 25, 2021, at 06:18, Uffe Jakobsen <uffe_at_uffe.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 25/06/2021 11.06, Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote:
>> Looking at the cbm-hackers threads at Nabble I noticed they're full of
>> "CONTENTS DELETED - The author has deleted this message" which makes the
>> threads almost unreadable.
>> Is this what you are talking about, or is this another issue?
> 
> Yes, that is the side effect of their (Nabble) turing their service into a pure forum (cutting off the mailinglist frontend stuff etc).
> 
> Any user (email) that haven't been registered within their forum will have their posts shown like that...
> 
> The posts that are still visible are the users that used Nabble as a frontend for cbm-hackers
> 
> There is lots of shouting on their support forum right now - both about the changes - but also about their failure to warn properly about the changes.
> If it continues to be defunkt - I'll delete the forum on Nabble - unless some sort of solution comes up the next weeks...
> 
>> Regarding a mailing list archive: I would offer to host one but the GDPR makes
>> this almost impossible. As far as my understanding of the GDPR goes, anybody
>> within the EU risks to get sued over such an archive. With some luck I may be
>> wrong of course :)
> 
> It is a jungle (GDPR)
> 
> /Uffe :-)
> 
>