Miata Mailing List: December 1993, Message #10
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Subject: Re: CompuServe, Miataville, and the List (fwd)
   Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 15:33:46 -0500

Shel Hall <76701.103@CompuServe.COM> wrote to Andy, regarding his archiving
of the mailing list on Compu$erve:

> I'd like everyone's permission to continue to do so.

I think Shel is providing a valuable service, and for what it is worth,
give him my permission to archive the messages I place onto this list.

Others have expressed concern, however with messages being used for
commercial uses without the author's permission.  This gives me cause
for some reflection on the changing world of the net.  It is an issue
that is likely to hit almost every mailing-list and newsgroup on the
Internet, not just our own beloved miata mailing list.  Can a policy be
created that takes into account all possible legalities?  Should it be?
Can it be enforced?  Again, should it be?

My personnal view is that my messages are freely read-able and reproduceable,
but in context.  I want notification if my comments are to be used in ads or
other commercial purposes.  I might not mind, but I want control in such a
case.  If someone is unsure about how I may feel in a given instance, ask.

Why do I feel like waz-his-name in _Paint Your Wagons_?
	"They civilize left,
	 they civilize right,
	 till nothing is left,
	 till nothing is right.
	 They civilize freedom,
	 till no one is free...
	 No one, except,
	 by coincidence, me..."

John "I talk to the trees" Keating