Yeah I totally agree with Fred on this one. Having to parse through an entire blind forward is kind of annoying when the sender should be explaining relevance. We should be keeping this list's signal-to-noise ratio as high as possible, and most importantly, each subscriber should be able to easily determine which is which (for him or her).
Also blind forwards probably violate at least one of the proposed guidelines. Just throwing that out there. -Frank On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Fred Benenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Alright, I'm going to propose no more "blind" forwards to this list. > > I think I understand what is going on here because I've heard about this > stuff on Wikileaks before, but most people are going to be confused by the > subject line mixed with PGP signature (good to know its you and not someone > else forwarding something you didn't write!). > > So please, next time, just spend 10 seconds explaining why you think your > forward is relevant to this list. We're going for quality, not quantity. > > best, > > Fred > > > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Ringo Kamens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> >> - -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: [WL-News] ACTA trade agreement brief for July 29-31 Washington >> DC >> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:00:53 +0100 (BST) >> From: Wikileaks Press Office <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> WIKILEAKS URGENT DOCUMENT RELEASE >> Tue Jul 29 10:53:25 BST 2008 >> >> ACTA trade agreement industry negotiating brief on Border Measures and >> Civil Enforcement >> >> The ACTA negotiations are scheduled for 29 to 31 July 2008 in Washington >> DC. >> >> In 2007 a select handful of the wealthiest countries began a >> treaty-making process to create a new global standard for copyright, >> trademark and patent enforcement, which was called, in a piece of >> brilliant marketing, the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement". >> >> ACTA is spearheaded by the United States, and includes the European >> Commission, Japan, and Switzerland -- which have large copyright and >> patent industries. Other countries invited to participate in ACTA's >> negotiation process are Canada, Australia, Korea, Mexico and New >> Zealand. Noticeably absent from ACTA's negotiations are leaders from >> developing countries who hold national policy priorities that differ >> from the international copyright and patent industry. >> >> This document is the ACTA negotiating brief dated July 29, 2008, >> provided by the copyright/patent/trademark industry to negotiating >> countries; pages concerning customs enforcement and civil enforcement. >> >> Under customs enforcement for example it proposes: >> >> * Increased inspection of goods to detect potential shipments >> * Customs to provide rights holders all relevant information for the >> purposes of their own private investigations and court action they are >> to be given a minimum of 20 working days to commence such actions. >> * Seized counterfeit goods are to be destroyed or disposed at the >> rights holders pleasure. Removing a trademark will not cut it. >> * Under civil enforcement rights holders will have more say on the >> damages involved as well as more compensation to cover their legal >> enforcement costs including "reasonable attorney's fees";. >> * Rights holders to get the right to obtain information regarding an >> infringer, their identities, means of production or distribution and >> relevant third parties. >> >> The exact composition of the business "side" is not known, which >> reflects the lack of transparency afflicting the ACTA process. Whether >> trade representatives can be forced to reveal the make-up to the press >> or policy groups remains to be seen. >> >> See http://wikileaks.org/wiki/S4 >> _______________________________________________ >> News mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://lists.wikileaks.org/mailman/listinfo/news >> http://wikileaks.be/wiki/Contact >> _______________________________________________ >> Volunteers mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://lists.wikileaks.org/mailman/listinfo/volunteers >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iD8DBQFIkjLXmBTzXUpNYqQRAn1iAJoCxAquhHsK7yjXGDKSspl4UdvP+wCgi3GF >> FK+oBXMzysLo/4EuiErlVJs= >> =KT02 >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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