Pleading the 5th

[Declan McCullagh]

Cute, but inaccurate. I never have questioned the ability of list
owners to set their own list policies (I am a member of a number of
mailing lists with do-not-forward policies).

Cypherpunks, on the other hand, is just a little different than a
private, invite-only mailing list that's run by one person for a specific
purpose on one server.

-Declan


On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 09:40:26AM -0800, Daniel J. Boone wrote:
> I find this hilarious coming from Declan, who once (WAAY back in 1997) closed
> one one of his previously open-subscription mailing lists because people were
> *gasp* forwarding messages from it to other lists.  His list policy was, if I
> recall, "you own your words, no retransmission without your permission" and he
> was outraged that some of his subscribers, specifically Hettinga, did not
> respect these vital intellectual property rights.
> 
> Now when somebody else makes the same silly assertion he was making, he calls
> it silly.  I guess we all grow up eventually....
> 
> -- Daniel
> 
> 
> Declan wrote:
> 
> > The problem with Choate's argument is that (besides that it's silly),
> > he gives implied consent to redistribute by posting here. Also, as he claims
> > to know, CDR is by nature distributed, and each node can set its own
> > policy. Dont' like it? Don't participate.
> 
> in response to Choate's:
> 
> > > I also own the copyright on everything I post to Cypherpunks. If it gets
> > > printed without my permission (and I won't give it) in a newspaper or
> > > other COMMERCIAL venture it is copyright infringement. You're free to post
> > > excerpts. I believe ~200 lines is the maximum allowed under current
> > > copyright law.
> 
> 
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