Re: Deduplication (was Re: Recovering from bad disk ...)

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:45:30 -0800 


On Mar 11, 2011, at 1:12 AM, LuKreme wrote:

> On Mar 10, 2011, at 21:59, Chris Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> An author is by definition a person.
> 
> And yet in the mail RFC author clearly is not necessarily a person.

In no possible legal, RFC or linguistic case can you argue that list serve 
distributed email becomes written by servers rather than the person who 
original wrote the message. Writing is composing. Distribution is duplication, 
it is not writing. A printing company does not write books, they are not the 
author, they are not the writer. They print. They duplicate. They distribute 
(or enable it).

A server "authoring" an automated message is, to me, clearly what the RFC is 
referring to.

As I've said, the person who wrote the message, could delegate their preference 
for Reply-To, to that of a list serve either by preference or advance 
notification or agreement when signing up for the list. But simply stomping on 
Reply-To (either adding it, let alone replacing it) is not the domain of a list 
serve, without giving the author of message advance notice.

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