Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:51:40 +0100 From: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question: Mailing Lists Legal Information Message-ID: <200703220051.40774.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: <200703211240.17942.idiotbg@gmail.com> References: <200703210405.53969.idiotbg@gmail.com> <d7195cff0703202310i502dfeedi31cc0d0a269b78d0@mail.gmail.com> <200703211240.17942.idiotbg@gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 21 March 2007 12:40:10 Momchil Ivanov wrote: <snipped> > Usually when you register somewhere, you have to click on a checkbox > stating that you accept the terms and conditions for using your > registration. What I mean is that we should have something like this for > the mailing lists. For example: when you subscribe to a mailing list you > click on a checkbox to allow redistribution and storage of your email. Reproduction and storage of your message is implied when signing up for a mailing list, same with forums, usenet, etc. Or even merely using email (think: quoting, reply-to-all, etc) It's the nature of the thing. That's what it does. > Sending your content to a mail list is like sending your content to > youtube/youporn or whatever, the only difference is that usually the former > is in the form of readable text. Nevertheless, both are published on the > web. You're the one publishing it in the first place. In principle, you own the copyright to your message but I would say the nature of the medium to which you send your message is well established. It doesn't take away your copyright, but it most likely takes away your ability to retract a message and get it completely deleted from the intarweb. > http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/ > Most of the things on the FreeBSD's web site have some copyright, excluding > mail lists' archives. We should say something about that content too, don`t > you thnik? No. > Maybe I missed something somewhere, maybe I`m completely wrong, but that`s > what I think, what about you? I disagree because the way your chosen medium works is well established, i.o.w. you should know what you get into by using the technology IMHO. And yes, I also highly dislike the stupid verbose disclaimers that some people append to their messages. If taken literally, in many cases you wouldn't even be allowed to quote their babble in your reply. But in the end it's their problem, not mine. Dan
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