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[Benjamin Scott]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, at 3:31pm, travis at scootz.net wrote:
>> Yeah, like write a script to strip out email addresses.  Of course, I
>> wrote this when I was led to believe that this would solve the actual
>> problem.
>
> When this came up before (with Derek) ...

  Just to be perfectly clear: Derek's complaints had/have nothing to do with
the status of the GNHLUG archives.  Indeed, and ironically, about all
Derek's complaining has done is increase the number of times his email
address has appeared on this list.  :-)

> Of course making a public and private archive where the messages were left
> unaltered in the private archive would be okay with me. But I would still
> like an archive available with email addresses.

  I like the idea of having a subscriber-only archive with un-obscured email
address, in addition to this hypothetical filtered-but-public archive.

> If I put up my own personal archive on my own person website of email I 
> receive, be it list or otherwise, who is this person to say?

  Well, they they still own the copyright of the mail in question.  You
don't.  Now, you might be able to make the case that by posting to a public
list, the person is implicitly granting the right to redistribute their mail,
but to the best of my knowledge, such a defense has never been tried in
court.

> Kind of like those emails you get from some business that say that the
> email is only for the person it was sent to, it's private, blah blah
> blah.. I just laugh at those. There is no way that can be legally binding.

  I'm not a lawyer, and I know you aren't, either.  I wouldn't be so sure
about assuming anything.  There is nothing in either the US or the NH
constitution that says the law has to make sense.  :)

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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