From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 21 06:38:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4443E16A469 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:38:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1CC913C45D for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:38:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k27so697237nfc for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:38:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=M/ywYhGxxuyftA6PR9Z2Yuz2L/Srl26hys2XY2fN/CmkXCJU6yzlufpUusqW5MqQVq1GDHUn6n5+roI3xLZd2vQiAWj3URT+ZHvrawvDaD9gO8I+rBbCOQrneK2sjZQxWREkeaywYapxT/GRr9NDiS2x4hRXFAfQH4OVsHQ2ulc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DY5zJFyqQ+QzQ2x6ob6vL9V4enX916SFdUTWVQni/Ka+rgRgLP5+XDOUBFc1qZlxQDvwstKCiGUG9YVnmAy3/CQtD5H6VAh57j5Uuw2zAhm+KiDkW8SabxGIHJrhCang/DeIaTgwXJIfqf19MhD/tSSYbPmM06l0fr6MiUgGmp4= Received: by 10.82.162.14 with SMTP id k14mr904409bue.1174457414470; Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:10:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.175.6 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:10:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:10:14 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: idiotbg@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <200703210405.53969.idiotbg@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200703210405.53969.idiotbg@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question: Mailing Lists Legal Information X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:38:40 -0000 On 20/03/07, Momchil Ivanov 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. -- --