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<a href="#remove">Can I have my email removed from a public list archive? </a>
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<a href="#whatthe">What is this approval system for?</a>
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<a href="#confused">Why are you sending me mail? I did not send you anything.</a>
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<a href="#accept">How does this system interact with smartlist's accept lists?</a>
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<a href="#x-no-archive">Do you honor the X-No-Archive message header? Why not?</a>
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<h2 id="remove">Can I have my email removed from a public list archive? </h2>
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<p>In general, no. See the <a href="ArchiveEditingPolicy">archive editing policy</a> for details.</p>
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<h2 id="prefix">Can you modify a subject line automatically to add a list-specific prefix?</h2>
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<p>No; see more about why W3C does not do
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<a href="subject-tagging">subject tagging</a> in its lists.</p>
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<h2 id="aa">Archive Approval System</h2>
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<h2 id="whatthe">What is this approval system for?</h2>
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<p>In the past we have had problems with people sending mail to one of
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our <a href="http://lists.w3.org/">archived mailing lists</a> and then
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being surprised to learn that their message ended up in a public archive.</p>
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We have hundreds of archived lists and although we try to be clear about
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the purpose of a list whenever we refer to it, we can not control how others refer
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to our lists. Therefore there is always the possibility that someone will send a
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message to our lists without knowing it will be archived on our Web site.
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This system takes care of that problem by requiring explicit approval
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from each poster before allowing their message to be distributed to the
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list. For the vast majority of posters who do not mind having their
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messages available in our Web archives, there is an option to approve any
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future messages they may send to W3C mailing lists as well.
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A nice side effect of this system is that it helps to reduce spam on our
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lists, since spammers generally do not read the replies they receive
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(and many or most of the return addresses they use are bogus anyway.)
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<h2 id="confused">Why are you sending me mail? I did not send you anything.</h2>
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If you received a notification message from us but did not send us a
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message, someone else may have forged a message with your email address
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as the sender. You can find out where the message originated by looking
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at the Received: headers of the message. (note that the only such header
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that can be trusted to be accurate is the one that shows when/where it
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entered our email systems.)
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If you are interested in preventing email forgeries claiming to be from
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your site, you may want to consider <a href="../../../Mail/spf/">publishing SPF records for your domain(s)</a>.
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W3C's mail servers automatically reject forgeries for domains that have
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published SPF records.
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<h2 id="accept">How does this system interact with smartlist's accept lists?</h2>
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If you are familiar with our mailing list system, you may wonder how this
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archive approval system interacts with the existing "accept lists", which
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are the lists of email addresses that are allowed to post to each list.
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There is no interaction between these two mechanisms. The people who were
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on the accept lists before this system was deployed have never explicitly
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given us permission to archive their messages on our site, so they will
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need to go through this archive approval step at least once along with
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everyone else.
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<h2 id="x-no-archive">Do you honor the X-No-Archive message header? Why not?</h2>
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We do not honor the <code>X-No-Archive</code> message header, nor do we
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plan to. All messages distributed to W3C's mailing lists are archived on
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our site; this is a requirement of participation on our lists.
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The intent of this system is to notify people that if they participate in
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our lists their messages are archived, not to allow them to participate
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without archiving.
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<h2 id="feedback">Where can I send feedback on this system?</h2>
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Please send any feedback on this system to <a href="mailto:archive-approval-comments@w3.org?Subject=archive%20approval%20system%3a%20">archive-approval-comments</a>.
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