And this kinda also makes you think......
What about all the other THOUSANDS of mailing lists that is out there on
the Internet??
Not to even mention news groups???????????
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Chris Bayliss(C.B.Bayliss@???)@Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:38:26PM +0100:
> > It is clearly stated that an archive of previous messages exists when you
> > go to find the list email address and/or register, isn't that clear enough
> > to understand that if you send a message to the list, it will be archived?
>
> It would be interesting to see the wording of the take down notice, but
> it is quite understandable that it hasn't been posted.
>
> Its not at all clear what legal basis there is to demand that the
> material is removed. The gathering and publication of the data would
> not appear to violate any data protection principles and the poster
> has knowingly posted the information to a public international list,
> so presumably consented to its wide dissemination and export to countries
> with no effective data protection laws like the USA..
>
> However, the rights and wrongs are not really the point. If you are
> personally threatened with legal action by someone, defending yourself
> can be costly. Furthermore, in some areas the DPA is a mess, there is
> a lack of test cases and there are never any guarantees about who will
> win any particular legal case.
>
> If the archive was hosted by a large organisation with the resources
> and will to fight the case who can host the archive it would be a
> different matter. However, as I understand it an individual is
> reponsible for it.
>
>
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Chris Knipe
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0 and 1. Now what could be so hard about that?
