On 13 Jul 2005 at 21:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: []
> Up until this week, I would have offered to share my Finale List files > with others. But Dennis (and others) have made it crystal clear that > they regard that as a violation of copyright. It doesn't matter > whether their interpretation of copyright law is correct or not--those > are their explicit wishes, and they need to be respected. If you're sharing your files with other list members, I certainly would have no objections. If you're sending them to a friend who also uses Finale and needs the help, and is not a list subscriber, I'd also not have any objection. On the other hand, if you put up a web page and reposted them all so that everyone in world could see them, I'd have a problem with it. The differences are in: 1. how many people you're distributing them to, AND 2. whether you're distribution is public or private. > So, to make a long story, umm, medium, the point here is that I > actually make a conscious effort to keep my posts as infrequent as > possible, so as not to be a bother--let's not make that into a > negative. The objection was not to lurkers. It was to people who never contribute anything to the list who complain about what the active participants have chosen to talk about. If you don't like the current threads, start one of your own. If you haven't any topics worthy of pursuit to introduce, then the threads you're not interested in aren't really soaking up any of your oxygen, now, are they? > Among the incidents within as serious an epidemic of flaming as I've > seen in seven years on this list, the word "lurker" has been applied > to people like me. As all of you must know, the use of that word > derives from chat rooms, particularly those with sexual content. As > such, the connotative meaning is so pejorative that it's only > millimeters away from "wankerer." I think you're absolutely mistaken in bringing this connotation to the word. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurker for a pretty exhaustive rundown of the history of the term. I have never participated in chat rooms, but I've seen the term used plenty of times, on mailing lists and in Usenet groups (which are not chat rooms). -- 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
