On Wednesday 29 October 2003 21:34, Earl Hood wrote:
> > Since the vast majority of these types of statements are being prepared
> > withi n
> > few days of the issueing of the original statement, a 3000 messages
> > window is
> >
> > just fine. If it isn't, that's tough luck...
>
> But, ignoring jurisdiction, would you still have problems with conforming
> to German law? Do you care?
The German law requires the Gegendarstellung ("opposing view") to be published
in the same medium and context as the original article. That is, if the
original article has been published in the magazine Der Spiegel ("The
Mirror"), the Gegendarstellung must also be published in Der Spiegel, but
there is no requirement that it is published in all press overviews or
quotations that have cited the original article.
Ported to a mailing list context it seems that it would simply be enough for
the article to be published on the mailing list which is a simple matter of
using the Reply button, and perhaps in any archives that are deemed
"official" archives of the list (which mail-archive.com isn't). At least that
is what the german lawyers on debate seem to agree on.
> > > For one software component that mail-archive uses, it will ignore
> > > messages that have the same message-id to an existing archived one
> > > (up to the 3000 message size window Jeff has specified).
> >
> > So a handover will probably be painless.
>
> I'm unsure about what you exactly mean by "handover". The way
> mail-archive works is that you subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
> the list you want archived.
That is not what I am doing. While I am also the list-administrator for that
list, I completely separate the list administration from my private
participiation on that list, especially when the issue is controversial. That
is, I have not subscribed mail-archive.com to the list, but I am using my
private subscription and a little Sieve rule
# fitug.de
if header :contains "Mailing-List" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" {
fileinto "INBOX/lists/fitug-debate";
if not header :contains "X-Spam-Level" "*******" {
redirect "[EMAIL PROTECTED]";
}
}
to bounce my private copy of these articles to mail-archive.com.
A handover would be me ceasing to to this bouncing, and another subscriber of
debate taking up the bouncing. That would probably not be completely
seamless, depending on how much we two are synchronizing ourselves in the
process.
Kristian
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