The Archive Team (which is the non-fandom archive effort) considers 'public' to be any group we can read without logging in and any group that has open membership (anyone can become a member if they click on the join button
Private is the same as restricted -you need to be approved by a moderator to both join and read
But then it gets weird...open archives (any human can read) but membership is moderator approval. I think those might be acceptable to the Archive Team. Note: they do not accept file submissions from other people. even moderators. If a moderator wants their group to be archived, you must contact the Archive Team directly. They have instructions https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Z-lODnyXsE2kiu8uL01L--10nDq3b_lowT88aB447-E/viewform?edit_requested=true
They will accept suggestions of which public groups to archive from anyone (see the form above).
What the OTW will accept I don't know (right now they seem to be saying: any group you can read without becoming a member and any group where you are a member...but all of this needs to be worked out. My advice is to grab now, take a snapshot of their info page which shows the membership type and the fact that the messages can be read by anyone.
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Date: 2019-11-01 06:44 am (UTC)Private is the same as restricted -you need to be approved by a moderator to both join and read
But then it gets weird...open archives (any human can read) but membership is moderator approval. I think those might be acceptable to the Archive Team. Note: they do not accept file submissions from other people. even moderators. If a moderator wants their group to be archived, you must contact the Archive Team directly. They have instructions https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Z-lODnyXsE2kiu8uL01L--10nDq3b_lowT88aB447-E/viewform?edit_requested=true
They will accept suggestions of which public groups to archive from anyone (see the form above).
What the OTW will accept I don't know (right now they seem to be saying: any group you can read without becoming a member and any group where you are a member...but all of this needs to be worked out. My advice is to grab now, take a snapshot of their info page which shows the membership type and the fact that the messages can be read by anyone.