Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:16:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com> Cc: chris@livecast.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please change this Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101051012480.20932-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <87snmy5nnf.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com>
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For what it's worth, On 5 Jan 2001, Ken McGlothlen wrote: > That said, I should point out that your presumption that "whoever `owns' the > site controls the copy" is not true in situations where the site is acting as a > "common carrier," as most mailing list archives are classified. Good > mailing-list archives do not discriminiate against particular authors or > messages, instead mindlessly storing every message that gets posted to a > mailing list. Building exceptions into such an archival process would result > in confusing gaps and cries of censorship (justifiably) from its users. I think the real problem* with building in exceptions is that your "common carrier" defense starts to look very shaky indeed. jan * Where "real problem" means "the one that can cost you money at the hands of litigious money-grubbers" as opposed to "crimes against mailing-list morality" :-) -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Ceci n'est pas une pipe | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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