Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:10:14 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: idiotbg@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question: Mailing Lists Legal Information Message-ID: <d7195cff0703202310i502dfeedi31cc0d0a269b78d0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200703210405.53969.idiotbg@gmail.com> References: <200703210405.53969.idiotbg@gmail.com>
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On 20/03/07, Momchil Ivanov <idiotbg@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a strange question that has been bothering mi mind in the past 2 hours > and it`s about legal notices. Nowadays almost everything is digital and there > is usually some copyright/copyleft or whaterver other legal notice assigned > to almost every piece of bits/data (binary programs, source codes, images, > docs, etc...). In this way of thoughts every e-mail should be considered some > kind of intelectual property belonging to its author, shouldn't it? > > So I was thinking: should there be some kind of legal notice when subscribing > to a list (respectively sending an e-mail to a list, not being subscribed to) > that says that the author gives exclusive rights to The FreeBSD Foundation to > store (archive) and redistribute (the way mailing lists work) e-mails being > sent to the list? > > I have been thinking about this since some people use in their signatures > texts like: > "You should not copy this e-mail or use it for any other purposes or disclose > its contents to any other person." > > Correct me if I am thinking complete nonsense, please! Mailing list have been > live for a long time now, but I think nowadays they need subscriber's > permission to redistribute, store and publish subscriber's mails on the web. > > Thank you for your time reading this :) > > -- > This correspondence is strictly confidential. Any screening, filtering > and/or production for the purpose of public or otherwise disclosure is > forbidden without written permission by the author signed above. If you are > not the intended recipient, please immediately notify the sender and > permanently delete any copies This sort of nonsense should probably be on chat@ rather than doc@. It is as silly as: By reading this message you agree to pay me $4500 cash within the next 10 days or relenquish title to your house. -- --
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