On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Tom Lane wrote: > AFAICT, the footer in question tries to make it illegal for us even to > have the message in our mail archives. If I were running the PG lists, > I would install filters that automatically reject mails containing such > notices, with a message like "Your corporate lawyers do not deserve to > have access to the internet. Go away until you've acquired a clue."
I just noticed Bruce's email suggesting that this is going ahead: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2007-03/msg00098.php I do not think this is a good idea. These disclaimer messages are generally tacted on by the MTA of the company at which the person works, as others have noted. There seem to be about 10 such emails to general per month, not sure about other lists. FWIW, usually it is just one or two offenders. We do not suffer this problem in isolation. I think the Debian project has tried to address this partly with this: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/disclaimer Couldn't we place a disclaimer on the subscription page and welcome email which says some of the interesting things in this disclaimer and says that code contributions are implicitly licensed BSD. No idea about the legal issues involved. Another way of looking at this is that we cannot be 100% thorough. What about disclaimers in German? What about false-positives? Another concern I've had is that the assumption is that those wanting to contribute (code) will just have to go register some throw away hotmail or yahoo account. I think this will make tracing the origin of code more difficult in the long term. Just my thoughts. Gavin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
