Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:50:34 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: favor Message-ID: <15310210442.20050207175034@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <d9175cad05020708306ed8685a@mail.gmail.com> References: <200502061420.24415.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEEKFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <d9175cad05020703066c9e02a2@mail.gmail.com> <1165136567.20050207171314@wanadoo.fr> <d9175cad05020708306ed8685a@mail.gmail.com>
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Eric Kjeldergaard writes: EK> Not always so, I know of many newspapers that go to subscribers only EK> (which local libraries are often among). This is especially true of EK> places without newstands. It doesn't matter where they go. It only matters where they may be expected to go by someone writing to the newspaper. EK> I think there may be a fundamental misunderstanding of media going on EK> here. A mailing list isn't the press. EK> Newspapers are printed on newspaper which gives them a very EK> short lifespan. Most libraries and newspapers have archives going back for decades. EK> More importantly, e-mail by its nature is delivered to mail servers EK> which almost without exception store the mail to a persistent data EK> store (often an hard disk). In this way, mail is archived (sometimes EK> nearly permanently) and is not ephemeral at all. These archives are not accessible to the general public. Note that it is perfectly possible to set up a mailing list that forbids local archiving, or any archiving at all. Some mailing lists have good reason to do this. EK> Many also do not. They take a greater risk. EK> You city folk complicate things. The larger the world, the more complex it becomes. And the Internet covers the planet. -- Anthony
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