Well, how times have changed. When I worked at Chris Pounder was appointed
to be in charge of Data Protection at the GLC in about 1984 he was part of
the then IT dept (actually it had the initials CCS which apart from being
Alexis Korner's band I can't remember what it stood for - now I remember -
Central Computer Services probably).
Don't tell me, Data Protection was considered too important to be left to
techies.
Nick Landau
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From: "Broom, Doreen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] List management things
If you're like me - I haven't a clue..not being a "techie". I have
e-mail and I use this site to discuss Data Protection issues which is
what I believe it was set up for way back then and not Information
Technology. It has always worked perfectly well I have found.
No offence meant by the way,
Doreen
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From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection issues
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jethro R Binks
Sent: 23 November 2006 14:25
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: List management things
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Tim Trent wrote:
> All new users will join as HTML users from now on, but any setting may
> be changed by any user at any time and as often as desired.
Bad idea. Keep the default sensible, which is not HTML. Those who want
it fancy, and know that it isn't going to break/get stripped/cause
security issues should actively choose to enable it themselves. You
shouldn't force a potential minefield of nastiness on those who may not
be able to make a conscious decision whether or not it's a good idea.
(As Nigel mentions, email was designed for text, and HTML email is a
crowbarred-in after thought hitched onto the back of MIME that doesn't
work very well for some people, and is plain unacceptable for others).
I thought "default opt-out", not "default opt-in", was the DP mantra!
Jethro.
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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services
University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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