Dieter wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> 
> I really do not want anything being mirrored. So my questions are (to you
> and the MusixTex community):
> (1) Who is behind gmane.org and mail-archive.com, who are already
> mirorring our mail?

gmane isn't just mirroring - its primary purpose is to convert an email list to 
NNTP (news).

> (2) Does anyone see any benefit in these mirroring activities?

I don't use it personally, but I know from other lists of plenty of people who 
use gmane as their preferred mailing list reader.

> (3) Have they been authorized by" Werner Icking Music Archive <tex-
> mu...@tug.org>" to do so?

This is a public mailing list with no restrictions on signing up: IANAL, but no 
authorisation is required to use the unaltered content of the list further 
(certainly in the UK and the US).

> (4) How can they do this technically and legally?

They have probably signed up a bot to the mailing list. Legally, see (3).

> (5) What can we do to stop this and remove our mails from these sites?

Personally, I find mail archives useful for this and many other lists which I 
am on (and find it slightly daft that a public mailing list restricts its 
mailman archives to subscribed users). In my opinion, the only (unfortunate) 
issue here is that you hadn't considered that this is a public list. Equally, 
my home address (being also my business address) is on my website, so my 
paranoia regarding email signatures is somewhat less than yours! :o)


David

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