From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 8 09:33:22 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 89FDC16A4E1 for ; Sun, 8 May 2005 09:33:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F85743D7E for ; Sun, 8 May 2005 09:33:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tomasq@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 34so1411955nzf for ; Sun, 08 May 2005 02:33:21 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jZYNbSpI4stzd3JWtfViVwdnCFQC64NfFHt4t36pRUsqKQM4aonL1z5i8xGB+8TOBZyV0RziSqTVDkl4NeK8d+njTzOFHNRDjYvOmzu4GK9vT6tdwi5buyegfePLpE2JUC9mEsdAaOEEKgwySp7D7xUS7CxPUw4KOvHLwhxQYLo= Received: by 10.36.9.12 with SMTP id 12mr975119nzi; Sun, 08 May 2005 02:33:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.2.19 with HTTP; Sun, 8 May 2005 02:33:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9e46c99e050508023352b0ad02@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 05:33:21 -0400 From: Tomas Quintero To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <721165832.20050508105827@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050507230820.GB1896@Alex.lan> <721165832.20050508105827@wanadoo.fr> Subject: Re: Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Tomas Quintero List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 09:33:22 -0000 I'm sorry but doesn't this discussion belong on another list? Maybe -chat? I dunno, surely it seems like it isn't related to any FreeBSD technical related content. This is worse than Theo spouting off about his next spam campaign. Top Posting for a Reason. On 5/8/05, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Ted Mittelstaedt writes: >=20 > > 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. >=20 > It's better than being successfully sued or prosecuted for infringement. >=20 > There can be little doubt that posts are indeed protected by copyright, > as they fall within the scope of materials that are so protected. The > only question is the degree to which this copyright can be successfully > enforced. However, successful enforcement of a law isn't necessary to > make the law valid, especially in torts. >=20 > > 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. >=20 > Which law supports that? >=20 > > 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. >=20 > What is the minimum legal age to enter a restaurant? >=20 > > 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. >=20 > Yes, but then they couldn't be sued successfully any more. >=20 > -- > Anthony >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >