Mike Nolan <nolan@celery.tssi.com> wrote:
> Norbert Bollow <nb@cisto.com> wrote:
> > I support the idea of creating an RFC about a simple and yet
> > sufficiently powerful and machine-parseable format for communicating
> > whatever rules the list-owner wants to be applicable to any given
> > list.
>
> That's an excellent idea, I can think of a variety of rules that could
> be promulgated that way, not just archiving policies. Let's do it!
Agreed, let's do it.
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> > Actually I believe that such a responsibility exists only where
> > the list-owners want the situation to be different from the default
> > that is implied by copyright law, namely:
>
> OMIGOD, you still believe in the copyright law? :-)
Well, IANAL, and from my layperson's perspective it looks like a total
mess, but I think it's part of the realities of the environment in
which I'm conducting business.
Also, copyright law is what gives the copyleft of the GNU GPL its
teeth, and that's a very good application of copyright law IMO.
Greetings, Norbert.
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