On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 10:13 PM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: > On 6/8/18 2:34 AM, Thomas Jollans wrote: >> >> On 07/06/18 22:36, Peter Pearson wrote: >> >>> X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2018 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. >>> Distribution through any means >>> other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to >>> publish this article in the >>> Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer >>> the body without this >>> notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are >>> allowed. >> >> As discussed previously [1], this arguably means that it's best if you >> don't even quote his messages if your posts are mirrored on the mailing >> list (as most people's are). >> >> [1]. >> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2017-November/728635.html > > > The restriction is absurd, and the idea that people will obey the > restriction in the headers is absurd. If Stefan posts to a newsgroup in this > day and age, he knows full well that his words will end up on http servers > somewhere. He needs to get over it, or stop posting to newsgroups.
Are news servers guaranteed to carry the X-Copyright header in all transmissions? If not, the copyright notice isn't part of the message, and is most likely unenforceable. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
