On 12 Jul 2005 at 15:35, Aaron Sherber wrote:

> At 02:56 PM 7/12/2005, David W. Fenton wrote:
>  >And that's how I discovered this. The point is that posts that I've
>  >made for one audience (you subscribers to this list) are being made
>  >available to everyone in the world,
> 
> But David, they've *always* been available to everyone in the world.
> Anyone in the world can join and then download the complete list
> archives themselves in about 5 minutes.

Once you're a subscriber to the list, you're a member of the list 
community, and that means you're no longer "everyone in the world."

Secondly, that is not the only issue I object to.

If somebody subscribes and downloads the whole archive for their own 
personal use, I have no objections (though I can't see that they'd be 
very useful, myself).

It's the republication of the content that is the problem, for three 
reasons:

1. it's a violation of copyright.

2. it allows the posts to appear out of their original context, which 
could potentially lead to misinterpretations.

3. it's profiting from content produced by other people without 
compensating those people in any way (let alone getting their 
permission to do it in the first place).

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc
All non-quoted content (c) David W. Fenton, all rights reserved

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