Actually, I know Marc personally (he's local to me here in the Bay Area) and he knows what a prick I can be when I get my mind set to it.

I suspect he'll just hack a filter in to drop my posts so they never make it to the list. Marc's a good guy, I just think he's ... extremely misguided .. in this case.

My sincere hope, however, is that others will request the same thing, reducing the value of his list so that it becomes worthless for him to actually do it.

The debate about what sort of messaging best serves the Empeg community is interesting to me. Personally, I use the BBS exclusively but I think that the mailing list gateway serves a valuable purpose. With the amount of effort Marc puts to the list, I expect that he explains to the users where the content is coming from, and how to reach the BBS.

But the argument about copyright seems a bit specious to me. Derek, I just excerpted the vast majority of your post above. It is now being distributed through the mailing list gateway.

Am I in violation of copyright law because I excerpted your post when replying to it without seeking your explicit permission first? Is Marc in violation of copyright law because he didn't explicitly screen my e-mail looking for your copyrighted material before redistributing it through the gateway? Or, is this an unavoidable exploit of copyright law?

I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I really don't follow your argument here, and I wanted to explore it.

Corby
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