Christian Pietsch via nettime-l on Mon, 26 Feb 2024 12:47:32 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> How to exclude posts from archiving (with solution) / was: Nettime Listening Post |
Dear nettimers, On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 09:47:06AM +0100, Christian Swertz via nettime-l wrote: > > One thing that is missing from David's recap was an aspect raised about > > the intimidation factors ( also related to the Silence themes of late ), > > Do you assume that the nettime-l archive is an intimidation factor and thus > prohibits people to post unusual or provocative ideas since they could be > attacked for that later with reference to the archive? As far as I see, this > cannot be denied. Even if the archive itself is certainly not the crucial > problem (all subscribers get all the mails anyway), this could be the > expression of a larger social problem. And I fully agree that this problem > is obviously connected to power dynamics. Perhaps this is a good opportunity to remind everyone that e-mail authors can indeed deny archiving by including the e-mail header “X-No-Archive: Yes” [1]. Hardly anyone knows this, and even fewer people know how to accomplish this, but there is help [2, 3]. This mailing list runs on Mailman, a software that honours this header. Younger people in particular seem to enjoy the concept of self-destructing messages. Technically, this is often just fiction because these messages are never really deleted and get included in backups anyway. However, it's a fact that people use this feature. It has been built into Mastodon, too. Users of our instance find it here [4]. It's quite a sophisticated implementation that can be configured to keep toots matching certain conditions such as popularity. I realise that when people call Nettime intimidating, they probably refer to more than just technical aspects. The sheer length of posts can be overwhelming, as has been observed before. I am sure it has been brought up that having time to read lenghty e-mails is quite a privilege. Let alone responding to them in writing. For instance, I currently do not have an academic job but a technical one, and this means that I have to finish this e-mail before my lunch break is over. The fact that some members have academic titles might be intimidating, too. Cheers, C: References ---------- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-No-Archive [2] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Custom_headers [3] https://www.lifewire.com/arbitrary-custom-heading-email-thunderbird-1173089 [4] https://tldr.nettime.org/statuses_cleanup -- Christian Pietsch, Bielefeld, Germany https://suma-ev.social/@christian
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