Re: [ga-abuse] Notice on Footer of Mailing List

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@Alvestrand.no>]

Patrick,
adding the number of subscribers would be simple, except that Majordomo 
does not have this function at present, so it would have to be added by hand.

The copyright stuff is MUCH more explosive - carried to the extreme, it 
would require written permission from the author before taking a motion to 
a vote, because a vote is sent to people not on the GA list. And so on.

The IETF rules on copyright are longer, but simpler; anyone contributing to 
the mailing lists is assumed to have supplied his comments to an open 
forum, and has therefore given implicit permission to quote and forward his 
messages, standard footers from the sender (I hate them) to the contrary.

My opinion is that a copyright such as you mention, if taken seriously, 
would seriously harm the operation of the GA. Consequently, I think such a 
copyright assertion could not be made without a vote on a rules change (2/3 
majority) for the GA.

             Harald


At 15:24 19.04.2001 +1000, Patrick Corliss wrote:
>Hi Roberto
>
>Thank you for your help.  In Australia we have stricter copyright rules than
>elsewhere.  The Australian [DNS] list carries the following notice at the
>footer:
>
> > This article is not to be reproduced or quoted beyond this forum without
> > express permission of the author. 370 subscribers.
> > Archived at http://listmaster.iinet.net.au/list/dns (user: dns, pass: dns)
> > Email "unsubscribe" to dns-request@auda.org.au to be removed.
>
>Our list says something like:
>
> > This message was passed to you via the ga-full@dnso.org list.
> > Send mail to majordomo@dnso.org to unsubscribe
> > ("unsubscribe ga-full" in the body of the message).
> > Archives at http://www.dnso.org/archives.html
>
>Both footers show the archives and how to unsubscribe.  The [DNS] list has a
>copyright notice which provides some form of protection to the author.
>
>I also like the ability to see at a glance the number of subscribers.
>
>Would you think that these sort of changes would need list approval?
>
>Best regards
>Patrick