On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 12:31:54PM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote: > (Incidentally, messages like those of Branden Robinson are false, > are certainly not beneficial, and trigger a stiff communication; > but this ultimately reflects on him.)
I don't see why he's wrong. Of the things you've complained about archives, there are none that your messages would make more than the smallest dent in. You're trying to impose a burden on Debian for purely theorical reasons, which isn't a very friendly thing to do. > By law, there must be a legal agreement between the author and the > publisher. If no such explicit agreement exists, then the author is > still the owner of the copy-rights, and can decide what to do with > that material, at any time. Not quite. The author can not stop the sale (at whatever price) of existing copies of the work, nor can he stop fair-use copies, or force people to distroy existing legal copies. > By posting to a mailing list, the author is exerting his right to > publish, and he/she is the publisher in that very moment. One email goes into the Debian mail server, and a thousand come out. I'd say Debian is the publisher. > No legal agreement exists between me and Debian. No explicit agreement. There is the argument that there is an implicit agreement. > Please also make explicit the policy with Debian mailing lists, and > ensure that its subscribers are notified and agree with it. You're the only person I know of who cares. The archives at lists.debian.org are sufficent hint to most people that their email will be archived - seeing a note at the bottom of that page saying your email will be archived would get a "well, duh!" response from me. (Which isn't to say it shouldn't be done.) I don't think we care whether the subscribers agree with; it is the way the developers like it, and if you don't want your posts archived, don't post. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg
