I think this is perfectly legitimate for mail list and news group postings
provided:
1. credit is given to the original author(s)
2. you strip author email addresses out
3. nothing is pulled out of context to the extent that meaning and intent
substantially changes
It is considered courtesy to make a reasonable effort to let an author know
you are going to do this though (not always possible with very old postings).
Reason for email address removal: SPAM. The spammer email address hounds
use web crawling "bots" to search for anything that has an email address
pattern to it. It's how the email address sellers can claim 10 million or
more email addresses; they log in, turn the bot on and go to bed; wake up,
turn it off, and voila, millions of email addresses gleaned from web pages.
At 06:43 4/14/00 , Acer wrote:
>Before I get majorly grilled, figure I'd ask:
>what's the consensus for my providing saved posts (saved locally) by list
>members as resources for future reference? In my
>just-one-year-as-of-this-week on the OM list, I've saved things, and now
>that I have an Oly-dedicated section on my webpage, do I have to get
>permission from the original poster or is it now in the public domain? In
>particular:
>
>Tomoko's OM->EOS adapter instructions
>Hawkin's review of OptiClean
>Trottier's shutter tester
>Olaf's Bokeh document
>Phillip's lens slide show (he's granted permission)
>
>and others...these are the ones that just come to mind, there are others.
>
>What say you folk?
>
>/Acer V
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