[TABD] Making the archives of TABD public again

[James Mallet]

Dear All,

For several months, archives of messages on the TABD list have been 
unavailable for searching, unless you happen to be on a UCL-based 
computer. Many UCL mailinglists are for internal use, and it was felt 
that a public archive was not desirable. The policy of making all UCL 
mailinglist archives private by default was adopted.

I have asked that archives for the TABD list again be made public, 
and have been told that this will be possible.

UCL has imposed some very reasonable conditions for making the list 
archives public again:

1) That we specifically warn current members of the list that their 
messages will be public and available to search engines internationally.

2) That I post a warning on the general information pages that the 
archives are available to the public, and are available to search 
engines internationally. The message that I am posting is:

WARNING: Please note that the TABD mailinglist is intended to make 
information about butterflies of the Tropical Andes widely available; 
therefore, the TABD archive is open to the PUBLIC. Your messages will 
be made AVAILABLE TO SEARCH ENGINES (such as Google) from anywhere in 
the world. If you wish to post a more private message to a group, you 
are advised to adopt a more private means of communication.

Note, it remains the case that only list members may post messages on 
the list, and lists of members are still available to members only, 
as per previous policy.

I hope that this meets the approval of the list members.

Sincerely, Jim Mallet (List manager, UCL)
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