On 12/07/05, dhbailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (even though it may be called "private" by its owners, since anybody in > the world is free to subscribe, with no qualifications to be met nor > stipulations placed, the courts may view this as a public list)
I subscribe to a couple of other Mailman lists where, to subscribe, your request for subscription is moderated. The list owner receives the request and sends out a questionnaire; it is only after sufficient answers have been received that he will begin the subscription. Possibly Henry could set up something similar for our list. He could even "flush out" all of the subscribers and require us all to resubscribe in order to weed out the robots. I would suggest that an appropriate questionnaire would include such questions as "What version of Finale did you first use?" and "What version of Finale are you currently using?" Though it is possible that the administrators of the robots may have the capacity to subscribe manually (and thus receive the questionnaire themselves), it is likely that certain questions can be devised that will prove familiarity with Finale in its present and past incarnations. However, this will definitely not do anything about the issue of the content currently available on the servers of these archive sites, and legal action to remove said content may still be required. In any case, creating a more comprehensive filter to membership might prevent this from happening again. -- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] my blog: http://augmentedfourth.blogspot.com Life would be so much easier if only (3/2)^12=(2/1)^7. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
