At 8:23 PM -0400 on 7/19/99, Alain Farmer wrote:
>Alain: Maybe so but there will never be as many exchanges on this
>subject as there is now. We can�t have one licence for the beginning
>then change it substantially en-route. Once the licence is decide upon,
>it will remain substantially the same thereafter, unless some kind of
>grave error is committed in its inception stage (now). As for the
>philosophical questions concerning what it is to be OPEN, they will
>surely take place but they may have little or nothing to do with the
>licencing issue, and will probably be dealt with a �Politics� list or
>something similar.
A licence list would be usefull for discussion of the licence and for
deciding if we wish to litigate against someone who abuses it, for example.
It would also be usefull for discussion of the special exceptions (making
other arrangements with the copyright holder).
>
>Mark Rauterkus : A license list and a license archive would be more
>welcoming.
>
>Alain: The licence List and/or the Politics List that I am suggesting
>could be hosted by the UFP, especially since this list is already
>established and not much has been posted to it recently. I will discuss
>it with the members of the UFP.
We already have a politics list. We can get a licence list easily. Is your
EIMS working, now?
>Alain : I am sure that they won�t. Everything about the licence will be
>established policy.
See above.
>Alain: Mail filtering doesn�t seem widespread. I wonder why. It�s so
>simple.
Well, a few points.
a) There are people in backwater nations who must pay for their
internet access either by time spent online or by bytes
transferred (unlike here in the US)
b) Not all mail software supports filtering
c) Getting simple filters set up is fairly simple. But it's not when
you have a lot of filters. I have, for example, 3 screenfulls of
Eudora filters.
>Alain: Let�s wait a little longer so that everyone has the time to
>respond to your suggestion to make a separate Licence mailing list, and
>for me to get the UFP�s approval for hosting it.
I'd like to keep on Unix as much as possible, honestly. And as long as
ListBot or Metacard is doing the hosting, it's probably less likely for
some lowlife (e.g., a thief) to screw it up.
>
>Mark Rauterkus : And, a ghost-town is perfectly okay as an alternative.
>
>Alain : I don�t agree.
What's wrong with a list with no messages? It's there for when you need it.
