On 24 February 2010 13:45, Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk wrote:
On 24/02/10 13:37, James Bensley wrote:
Thats what I would hope for. Like my backups of the wiki data, I offer my VPS as a place to also backup the list data. Brett I am guessing will probably make the same offer? Others would also be great.
There may be data protection issues for anyone storing the list?
I'd suggest at least that once it has been decided that someone (or more than one person) will hold backups of the list membership, then a message should be sent to the list explaining what will be done and by whom so that anyone who wishes to can remove themselves from the list first. The policy should then be documented to new subscribers, either in the welcome email or on the list website (preferably the latter, or even better both).
I, for one, and more than happy to trust any of the people who have suggested that they will hold this data, but then I'm not a lurker so my details are in the public domain anyway.
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There should be no data protection issues here. Just having your name and email address isn't enough. I believe the minimum requirements of stored personal data in order to make it applicable to The Data Protection Act 1998 is name, DOB and address. I'm not ever sure if email address falls under the scopre of the DPA. Also its arguable if people put in their real names!