On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 02:31:44PM +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote: > --On 19 February 2009 08:29:23 -0500 Gary L Burnore > <gburn...@databasix.com> wrote: > > > Fortunately, you're not a UK lawyer. Nor am I. If you'd like to make case > > law, go for it. Until some UK judge says a mailing list set up to > > support a product is now a marketing list, it's not. > > Well, perhaps it isn't, but I think the principles [...snip]
I disagree, but it doesn't really matter, now, does it? This is not a UK list. It's unreasonable to try to force your local rules on global communities. Otherwise you have to stoop down to the lowest common denominator (and probably the longest combined dysclaimer (intentional typo)). Is this mailinglist hosted in the UK? No, it isn't. In fact, it's technically hosted in the Netherlands (hmm... IP looks familiar), but the list operators are, um, foreign. Italian, American, who knows. Whose rules should we apply? This list follows the RFCs and several best practices, and that should suffice. If it doesn't, not only this list is in problems, but a lot of other lists too. You can even get to the unsubscribe page with a single click from the page mentioned in the footer. And then this is a list with email professionals on it (or so you'd expect). If the UK legislature insists on having things their way in spite of the rest of the world, and starts threatening anyone who doesn't follow THEIR rules, then bye bye, unsubscribe *.uk and go and have fun on clamav-uk-us...@lists.1984.gov.uk. Or at least, that's what I'd say if I were the list operator, which I'm not (I do administrate other email lists, though) Capice? -- Jan-Pieter Cornet <joh...@xs4all.nl> !! Disclamer: The addressee of this email is not the intended recipient. !! !! This is only a test of the echelon and data retention systems. Please !! !! archive this message indefinitely to allow verification of the logs. !! _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
