On 13 Jul 2005 at 7:00, Phil Daley wrote: > At 7/12/2005 03:49 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > >Consider the difference between posting to any unmoderated Usenet > >group and posting to the Finale list. > >It's a *huge* difference. > > I guess you need to explain why there is ANY difference, other than > having to subscribe ahead of time. > > Since ANYONE can subscribe, how is it any different?
1. because there *is* a listowner who can police a mailing list 2. because there is an affirmative subscription process by which you agree to the terms of the list. 3. all messages for a mailing list originate with one server, whereas Usenet messages originate on thousands of different servers, with no central point of distribution. This is why 1) is possible. > >I note that there don't seem to be any explicit Finale list terms of > >service accessible from > >http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale. It was so long ago > >that I subscribed that I don't believe I have the terms of service > >you get when you subscribe. I think it would be helpful to have > those >accessible from the listinfo page (based on my past > experiencing >administering a mailman mailing list, I know that part > of the content >of that page is configurable by the list > administrator). > > Here you go: Well, I see there are actually no terms of service in there. Perhaps it's time to add those? Perhaps something like: "Subscribers may not republish content posted on the mailing list without permission of the authors." -- 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 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
