OT: SCO Forum

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Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
At about Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:37:42AM -0400,
Jay Ashworth blabbed on about:
> 
> If you're going to participate in mailing lists, experience has proven
> that It Would Be Good If you didn't do it from an email account with
> such a tag appended to messages, as it can, among other things, call
> into question the legality of online archives of such messages.  Some
> mailing lists will simply unsubscribe you.

You sure about that?  I've heard the claim that once you send it and the
recipient (whomever that is) receives it, it's theirs, period.  They can do
what they like with it, same as sending regular postage.  I don't think any
amount of fancy boilerplate is going to change that, assuming it's true in
the first place.

Basically, if it hits your inbox, you're supposed to "own" that copy of
the message.  So I've been told, anyway.

Let's put it this way:  What happens if someone buys a book and ships it to
your name at your address because the secretary screwed up shipping?
You've (to my knowledge) no obligation to return it.  You're still bound by
copyright law regarding the book, of course.  But as an article, you
basically received that as "a gift" (albeit unintentionally), did you not?

I've read about the new sneakwrap licensing they're actually putting into
books now in just such a situation.  One doctor received a professional
reference by mistake, and by the time he opened it and found the license,
then -read- the license, he wasn't even allowed to give it back, resell it,
or even destroy it.  He ended up owning something he could do nothing
which, for which he didn't ask in the first place.

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