On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 19:36 -0400, comex wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Much of what you've written can be treated as the rights of natural
> > persons behind the partnership being preserved, without directly
> > claiming rights for partnerships. For example, for fora participation,
> > all messages, even automated ones, originate from a natural person
> > whose rights are protected.
>
> In a message sent via a cron job, it's certainly possible that the
> owner of the server, the creator of the sending script, and the people
> who caused the state of events necessitating the message are all
> distinct. Presently Perlnomic requires (?) one person to cause the
> message to be sent, but automated messages originating from no natural
> person are not an impossibility.
It requires one entity to cause the message to be sent, but that isn't
necessarily a person. I think it's reasonably likely that Googlebot, or
some other search engine crawler, has sent the PNP's votes on at least
one occasion.
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ais523
