owner-cypherpunks@hks.net says:
Perry E. Metzger <perry@imsi.com> wrote:
John Schofield says:
It is silly to talk of someone "owning" the list. The list is a community. The only possible owners are the people in the community. If we all left, Eric would still have control over the list--but the list would be worthless.
It is silly to talk of someone "owning" a restaurant. The restaurant is a community. The only possible owners are the people in the community. If the patrons all left, Chef Joey would still have control over the restaurant -- but the restaurant would be worthless.
You continue to confuse (deliberately?) a community with the place it meets.
You continue to confuse the way the mailing list functions with the people that use it. The question of whether Eric can require that all subscribers to the list wear blue mud smeared over their faces at all times is what we are discussing -- that is, does he have proprietary control over the way the list is run. The list is run with resources he has been granted dominion over. It appears that he's completely free to take any action he likes. You are, of course, free to sugges that he not do so, and you are also free to stop using his resources in disgust. This has been driven into the ground, so I won't continue it. However, I would suggest that all the people who think Eric doesn't have absolute control here attempt to figure out how to impose any rule or regulation without his consent, or how to stop him from implementing anything without your consent. (The fact that Eric has no interest in ruining the list and that we would prefer that he not wreck it is immaterial, by the way -- he is free to do so if he desires to, and that is what counts.)