<nettime> How to exclude posts from archiving (with solution) / was: Nettime Listening Post

[Christian Pietsch via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

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
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[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

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Christian Pietsch, Bielefeld, Germany
https://suma-ev.social/@christian

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