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Ann Navarro writes: > Passing around emails via forward, or looking things up in the archive is > one thing. *Publishing them* is entirely different. What about running a news story in one frame, with your posting (directly from the XML-Dev archive) in the other? It's nasty business, really, and I simply operate on the assumption that anything I post to any public list can and will be reprinted, no matter how stupid. To give two examples, when I booted my Linux notebook a couple of months ago, this fortune appeared on the screen: "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." (By dmeggins@a...) Wow! Yep, that's me back in grad school at Toronto in the late 80's or early 90's, and I had no idea that anyone had even read the message. Less to my credit, I'm immortalized in the famous "Linux is Obsolete" thread from '91 or '92 (gleefully archived at many Linux sites), where I argue that Linux is out-of-date because it uses a monolithic kernel instead of a microkernel. I do not remember giving permission for either of these uses, but these are statements that I made in a public forum, and in the U.S. (at least) I suspect that that fact makes them legally quotable whether I will or no. When you post to a public mailing list, you're *always* on the record. Furthermore, in the U.S., you could probably argue that many of us -- especially those who write books, speak at conferences, or are involved in the W3C -- qualify as "public figures", which (thanks to Larry Flynt) means that people can quote us and even viciously parody us with immunity. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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