From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 7 00:04:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E9816A4D4 for ; Sat, 7 May 2005 00:04:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fw.farid-hajji.net (fw.farid-hajji.net [213.146.115.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B20C43D3F for ; Sat, 7 May 2005 00:04:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from epia2.farid-hajji.net (epia-2 [192.168.254.11]) by fw.farid-hajji.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 191AE4B296; Sat, 7 May 2005 02:02:35 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 02:06:45 +0200 From: cpghost@cordula.ws To: John Pettitt Message-ID: <20050507000645.GA10731@epia2.farid-hajji.net> References: <20050506103934.10FA34BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> <20050506140118.GB77760@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <342912884.20050506204440@wanadoo.fr> <427BC142.2030702@cloudview.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <427BC142.2030702@cloudview.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 00:04:56 -0000 On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 12:10:58PM -0700, John Pettitt wrote: > This news just in: > > Fafa Hafiz Krantz a research designer at Barbershop in Norway ( > http://www.home.no/barbershop ) has asked that his posts be removed for > all the archives of several public email lists. The request sparked a > heated debate over the issue of copyright on email lists and raised > interesting questions about specifically opting in to having posts > archived. As is typical in such debates few of the participants cited > any real evidence backing up their views and almost no attention was > paid to the jurisdictional issues created by international lists. > > There was speculation that the request for deletion was prompted by the > posters political views as referenced in his email signature which > points to an article about middle east politics > http://www.home.no/barbershop/smart/sharon.pdf > > With the debate he started Mr Krantz seems to have had ensured that his > name will live in archives for the foreseeable future, referenced in > articles such as this one which he has no copyright to and no control > over. In the end the best strategy seems to be: if you don't want to > be quoted don't say anything. > > --END-- ROTFL! Now post this on Slashdot and have it picked up by Google News and major news agencies. I guess, Fafa's bandwidth costs will go through the roof in the blink of an eye. So will his page rank, incidentally. Not that I'm suggesting doing this, of course! > This news item may be archived and reposted in any medium without > limitation including on search engines. Absolutely! Copyright doesn't protect anyone from making a fool out of themselves. Cheers, -cpgost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/