From: IN%"ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com" "Jim Choate" 15-FEB-1997 07:11:54.43
Perhaps in addition to the X-foo structures we have discussed already we might consider adding,
X-distrib-policy: foo
Where foo might be,
Public Domain All rights reserved, contact author for redistribution Distribution for non-commercial uses permitted Refer to authors header Copyleft etc.
or whatever the policy might be for a given remailer. This would significantly aid folks in their shopping around.
The basic difficulty with this idea is that _senders_ generally don't have much of a choice where the messages go, once you've decided to accept them. In other words, just because you've decided to accept a message doesn't mean it suddenly becomes copyleft/public domain/whatever. Now, if you, say, announced that only subscribers to your particular list, subscribers to any other lists adopting the same idea, and those who'd sign a consent agreement could post through your list, that wouldn't be a problem... although I suspect you wouldn't get many subscribers. -Allen