• From: "Len Bullard" <cbullard@h...>
• To: "'Tei'" <oscar.vives@g...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:17:29 -0500

The subject is abuse.   I ask if the list is abused or the contributors. The
list works the way it does because of its design and frankly, that predates
the web.  The notion advanced was that the law could fix this.  The problem
is the law is too expensive at scale.  I can't bring myself to blame a rape
victim for a rape.  The design of the web is such that by analogy all one
can tell them to move away from a town that looks the other way because rape
is built in as a feature of living in that town, or to get a gun or to only
let their ugly kids out on the street and keep the rest behind a firewall.

Again, one would prefer communion over dominion but it will be better to
design for both.  The web doesn't work where it works because of the
witlessness of the design but because of years of work done on bolting
authorization and authentication designs onto it.  Expect more of that.

len


From: Tei [mailto:oscar.vives@g...] 

I agree with that.

Anyway is needed to balance the authors needs and the society need.
Often authors want too much power, and rule everything, how to use his
work, where, who, etc.
We will live a Orwellian anti-utopia If you let the authors rule.

• References:
  • Re: Re: Abuse of this list
    • From: Tei <oscar.vives@g...>