On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:07:13 +0100, Arnold Krille <arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 02 February 2010 13:29:05 Marc-Olivier Barre wrote: >> First of all, let me remind you, and every linux-audio-user member out >> there that the archives *ARE PUBLIC*, and thus what you post here will be >> eventually readable by the *WHOLE WORLD*. >> >> Deleting the post is not going to happen, I am only willing to censor the >> one post that poses an issue provided the name of the company is >> mentioned >> on a censor banner inside the post. The least we can do with such a case >> is >> add a little public humiliation to this. >> >> Also I would like to say that this is the one and only time that this >> happens. Next time, the original poster will face the legal >> consequences. I >> hope this is crystal clear to every one reading. > > I am mixed with this. > > On one hand this is a _very_ good reminder for us people that this list is > in > fact public and not controlled by the senders. Everything you write _will_ > show up on the whole internet and will be pretty hard to suppress, its not > only these archives but also copies in search-engines caches and other web > archives... (Not even talking about peoples personal archive in their in- > boxes.) Yup, I forgot to mention public copies of the archives in my post. > On the other hand it might be that then lawyers come after you, Marc, or > the > linux audio consortium as you are running the list and could therefore be > responsible for stuff published there. Even if we "sign" some paragraphs > on > subscription to indemnify you in case of trouble, it could still be you > who > gets the first letters from lawyers and you then have to sent your own > lawyers > after us... I don't know what the American laws have to say about this... IANAL anyways... > Unless this list runs on some anonymous server somewhere in the technology- > pendant of the third world and there are no names connected, I would > follow > this bidding (and every following one when lawyers and technology are > involved) and only ask for some donations to either the linux audio > consortium > for technical expenses or for charity projects. I will follow the bidding. Just wanted to make the request and decision public, and eventually start an interesting debate on this matter. Everyone grab your pop corn :) > Of course when people just want their own rude posts deleted, I would > definitely not do it. Indeed. Cheers, -- Marc-Olivier Barre XMPP ID : marco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.MarcOChapeau.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
