Administrivia

["Richard J. Sexton" <richard@ns1.vrx.net>]

Hi.

I have the ability (now) to automagically archive the mail from a
mailing list onto a website.

The only thing that prevents me from doing to is legal, not
technical. Under US and Canadian (I'm in Candada) copyright
law, the author of *anything* controls the right to copy
that anything.right to copy = copyright. For more information
about this, see <A HREF="http://vrx.net/copyright">http://vrx.net/copyright</A>

I *would* like to archive this mailing list on this server
so future (generations?) will be able to read it.

To do this I need to cover my ass in th legalistic sense
since YOU own your writings, not me, even though it exists
on my server. Also, I want to prevent predatory commercialization
of our group writings.

What I would like to do then is assert a copyright on the contents
of this list under the name "Usenet Community Trust" which
is an organizaiton Erik Fair set up many years ago expressly
for purposes like this.

I'm not going to just *do* this, if this is the rough consensus
of the list, then thats the way it will be. I'm not sure
what to do with poeple who don't want to do this, but
I susepct we won't find any; let's cross that bridge when
we come to it.

Here is the prposed copyright notice:

"These archives are Copyright 1996 by the Usenet Community
Trust. Permission to use these writings for non commercial
purposes is granted provided attribution to the author
is given, and mention is made of the URL of the archive
and name of the mailing list"

Feedback?

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