From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 2:17:45 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 02:17:44 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E55B937B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 02:17:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:17:22 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14ETvA-0000hV-00; Fri, 05 Jan 2001 10:16:28 +0000 Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:16:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant To: Ken McGlothlen Cc: chris@livecast.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please change this In-Reply-To: <87snmy5nnf.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Jan Grant Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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