Dieter wrote: > Hi Christian, > > I really do not want anything being mirrored. So my questions are (to you > and the MusixTex community): > (1) Who is behind gmane.org and mail-archive.com, who are already > mirorring our mail?
gmane isn't just mirroring - its primary purpose is to convert an email list to NNTP (news). > (2) Does anyone see any benefit in these mirroring activities? I don't use it personally, but I know from other lists of plenty of people who use gmane as their preferred mailing list reader. > (3) Have they been authorized by" Werner Icking Music Archive <tex- > mu...@tug.org>" to do so? This is a public mailing list with no restrictions on signing up: IANAL, but no authorisation is required to use the unaltered content of the list further (certainly in the UK and the US). > (4) How can they do this technically and legally? They have probably signed up a bot to the mailing list. Legally, see (3). > (5) What can we do to stop this and remove our mails from these sites? Personally, I find mail archives useful for this and many other lists which I am on (and find it slightly daft that a public mailing list restricts its mailman archives to subscribed users). In my opinion, the only (unfortunate) issue here is that you hadn't considered that this is a public list. Equally, my home address (being also my business address) is on my website, so my paranoia regarding email signatures is somewhat less than yours! :o) David ------------------------------- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
