I agree that this is silly. When you send an email to this list you are going to sometimes have an email forwarded to an offlist member. You are going to be quoted with attribution in other emails, perhaps to other lists. It's part of the expected actions to be taken with an email, and these are not illegal as far as I'm aware.
While the argument exists that since your post is © 2005 you, one must also consider the value of the post. If someone wants to read your post all they need to do is join the list and they can. Therefore, there is no undue harm caused by someone archiving their received emails elsewhere, even if publically accessible. If you wish to have your posts not archived, then the correct protocaol in email is to set the appropriate X-Header. Adding a © notice in your signature is senseless - that is used in print for use by humans, but no human is involved with the actual archiving of your post. Complaining about archiving when the X-Header has not been set is kinda like whining about the draft when you've left the door open. Finally, the whole point of this list is to help others. Does it matter in a real way whether the person is helped through the "official" archive or another? If there was some proprietary information or secrets or artistic worth or such here, ok. But it's an email list. If someone thinks so highly of the information we freely exchange here that they want to draw attention to it, that's a compliment. Neal Schermerhorn _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
