Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 23:11:40 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl>, "Chris Hodgins" <christopher.hodgins@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE! Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGEFFFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050507230820.GB1896@Alex.lan>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Alex > de Kruijff > Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 4:08 PM > To: Chris Hodgins > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE! > > > On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 04:05:09PM +0100, Chris Hodgins wrote: > > This keeps coming up time and time again. Why don't we simply put up > > a message on the subscription page that says if you subscribe you > > agree that your messages will be archived for public viewing. End of > > story. No more bitchy emails on this subject, no more heated debates > > and much more time devoted to talking about FreeBSD. > No, Chris, we don't want to do that. If you put any kind of message like that on the website you are then implying that the users have copyrights in the first place on postings that they put on the mailing list. Since what law there is supports the opposite assumption - that the poster has no copyright on the post made in this forum - you are far better legally by NOT putting such a disclaimer. It is kind of like if you walk into a restaurant and pick up a fork and stab yourself, then sue the restaurant claiming that they are negligent in not warning you that their forks are sharp. Today you don't see warning labels on forks because the law presumes that a fork is supposed to be sharp, and it presumes that anyone of legal age to enter a restaurant would know this. If restaurants all started slapping warning labels on their forks then they would create a presumption that a normal fork is dull, and that the sharp kind is unexpected. Ted
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