Not that I don't understand your viewpoint, but you have to realize that almost any and every mailing list is published in more than one place. Any person who posts to this list is knowingly publishing to an unknown audience. I find it odd that you are comfortable with publishing to one unknown audience but are not comfortable when it is published to another audience.
Now, who says dbforums.com is a commercial operation? The only thing I see is a banner ad at the top of the pages, and some webmasters put up banner ads just to try to compensate for the price of hosting in order to provide a service. I can reason with your concern about your e-mail addresses being available. That is why many people have fake e-mail addresses to use when posting. Live and learn. Bottom line is - if you're ever subscribed to a mailing list, you should know first-hand that you are publishing your writing to the Internet. Once it's out there, it's up for grabs by anyone who wants to use it almost any way they want to. - Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: Robert Alexander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 9:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: just found out this list is being published on the web Hi all, I just found out, while looking for other things, that what seems to be the entire content of the MySQL list is being published on the web. I, for one, really don't like this idea. I have a reasonable expectation that what I post here is for viewing by subscribers to this list, the MySQL community, not the whole world. I realize that a mailing list is not *real* private -- anyone can subscribe, after all -- but I sure don't like discovering, for example, my personal email addresses on web pages that are available to spambots. The site in question is http://dbforums.com. Try, for example, http://dbforums.com/t147187.html I certainly haven't consented to my personal speech and writing being used as a commercial operation's "content." I don't consider publishing my writing on a public web page without my knowledge or consent to be fair use. I'm not talking about a searchable mailing list archive; that is certainly reasonable fair use. A searchable archive creates pages on demand for the person requesting them, and doesn't leave them on the web to be found by search engines and 'bots. Dear MySQL folks, Have you given permission to dbforums.com to publish the content of this list? Thanks everyone. Best, /Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
