Raj Mathur wrote: >> On Mon, January 12, 2009 11:20 pm, Rony said: >> >>> Philip Tellis wrote: >>> >>>> IIRC, all mails to this list are in the Public Domain. >>>> [snip] >>>> >>> Just want to mention my experience with messages on this list. I >>> had written a mail about an issue of LFY and it included a balanced >>> view. In the next month's issue I find my message on this list >>> being printed in the letters section and they neatly assembled only >>> those lines that were positive about LFY. All this without my >>> knowledge of the same. >>> > > If the mail is in the public domain then LFY has not done anything > wrong -- they are within their rights to print the mail, mangle it, > change attribution, select, cut and paste without any obligation to > inform the original author. That's what public domain means. > I do not think public domain means that you can take an article, twist its meaning and pretend that the author means something completely different. Public Domain means you are allowed to quote it, use the statement in your own documents. But not to defame the author by claiming something he did not say
> Regards, > > -- Raju > -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
