On 02.09.13 14:58, Chris Samuel wrote:
On 02/09/13 14:30, Craig Sanders wrote:
being subscribed to luv-announce has been the de-facto criteria for years, and has been stated and accepted many times on this and other LUV lists.
That was my understanding too, but the act says LUV must keep a register of members including their name, address and the date they became a member so I'm not sure that luv-announce could meet that need.
ISTM that the mailing list is a 100% up to date register of both passive and active members, and that the email addresses in it constitute the (electronic) postal addresses of those members. (There has already been advice on this list that a residential address is not necessary, but rather a means of distinguishing each member from a possible namesake. The email address definitely does that.) If no other record of membership duration has been maintained, then the luv-main and other list archives do show the date of the earliest recorded post of each member, i.e. the date on which they became an active member, if the archive is complete. It wouldn't take too much to cobble up a script to extract that detail for everyone who has ever posted, and correlate it with the current mailing lists, if the archives were to be viewed as an excessively noisy membership register. Erik -- Anything can be impossible, given sufficient bureaucracy.