>>>>> "Tapas" == Tapas Chaturvedi <[email protected]> writes:
Tapas> Hi Folks, Today I was trying to find the solution for one of Tapas> the issue. While googling I found the number of web sites Tapas> maintaining same Mailing list web archives. My question is "Is Tapas> this legal to maintain web archive of different mailing Tapas> list/group which you are not owning ?" If its not, is there any Tapas> way to do it legally ? I am not a lawyer, but structly speaking, I believe that copyright in the individual members' posts resides with the poster. So theoritcally you';d have to ask all the people who post to all the mailing lists. In practice though it doesn;t matter --- in sending something to a mailing list one implcitly gives permission to all the consumers of that list, including third party archive sites, to reproduce the message. Tapas> I am planning to start one archive site Tapas> for all the famous gnu/Linux mailing lists. But before you reinvent the wheel, take a look at http://marc.info/ mailing list archives. It's pretty comprehensive. Peter C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
