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OK, thanks for that. Sounds more innocuous.<br>
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As a remark, I believe that the quality of analytic products done on
mailing lists is far less than that which can be done on community
sites with engines in the middle, especially for one reason: the
latter allows tracking message <i>reads</i> in detail, and
moreover, <i>who</i> does the reads (vs. who does not), and what
are the characteristics. All this to formulate rich feature vectors
for ANN training. I believe that that is not feasible with mailing
lists, but I may be wrong. And of course, it's easy enough to
correlate names to confidential info already snarfed into the world
of databases out there.<br>
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- Paul<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/23/19 4:03 PM, David Gobbi wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi Paul,</div>
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<div>As far as I understand, Kitware is running Discourse on
their own server. So even if it is bought out, Kitware can
continue to use the version that they currently have and
fork/patch it as necessary. And I'm sure that if anyone
audits the Discourse code base and finds that it is leaking
analytics to someone, Kitware would be happy to plug the leak.</div>
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<div>In any case, there's plenty of analytics that companies can
do based on public mailing lists, and I don't think a public
forum is any different in that regard unless you include
confidential info in your profile.</div>
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<div> David</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 2:25
PM Paul Douglas Hahn <<a
href="mailto:pdhahn@compintensehpc.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">pdhahn@compintensehpc.com</a>>
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0.8ex;border-left:1px solid
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I realize I am not an
important voice for this topic, but with <br>
Discourse, I can say that I anticipate termination of
"real-time" <br>
monitoring of VTK issues that I now do with the mailing
lists. I do not <br>
want to be on a "free" community site that is or might
become oriented <br>
to make money of me one way or another (hidden), tracking
me, etc. etc.<br>
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Hmmm ... so how long will it take Microsoft to come in and
buy Discourse <br>
just like they did with Github? And what is the relationship
(if any) <br>
between Bloomberg's Discourse Analytics (<a
href="http://www.discourseanalytics.com" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">www.discourseanalytics.com</a>)
and <br>
Discourse.org? They both have similar logos. Just wondering.<br>
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Bye,<br>
Paul<br>
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