Re: Question: Mailing Lists Legal Information

On 20/03/07, Momchil Ivanov <idiotbg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a strange question that has been bothering mi mind in the past 2 hours
> and it`s about legal notices. Nowadays almost everything is digital and there
> is usually some copyright/copyleft or whaterver other legal notice assigned
> to almost every piece of bits/data (binary programs, source codes, images,
> docs, etc...). In this way of thoughts every e-mail should be considered some
> kind of intelectual property belonging to its author, shouldn't it?
>
> So I was thinking: should there be some kind of legal notice when subscribing
> to a list (respectively sending an e-mail to a list, not being subscribed to)
> that says that the author gives exclusive rights to The FreeBSD Foundation to
> store (archive) and redistribute (the way mailing lists work) e-mails being
> sent to the list?
>
> I have been thinking about this since some people use in their signatures
> texts like:
> "You should not copy this e-mail or use it for any other purposes or disclose
> its contents to any other person."
>
> Correct me if I am thinking complete nonsense, please! Mailing list have been
> live for a long time now, but I think nowadays they need subscriber's
> permission to redistribute, store and publish subscriber's mails on the web.
>
> Thank you for your time reading this :)
>
> --
> This correspondence is strictly confidential. Any screening, filtering
> and/or production for the purpose of public or otherwise disclosure is
> forbidden without written permission by the author signed above. If you are
> not the intended recipient, please immediately notify the sender and
> permanently delete any copies

This sort of nonsense should probably be on chat@
rather than doc@.

It is as silly as:

By reading this message you agree to pay me $4500
cash within the next 10 days or relenquish title to your
house.

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