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[David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>]

On 10/14/03 8:30 AM, "Michael D. Thomas" <mdthomas AT mindspring.com> wrote:

> * Permissions: The original author -- who ever does the post -- must
> agree that their content can be published (The other way to think about
> it is to consider that any content posted to the list somehow becomes
> the property of INW. I don't think we want to go there.) One of the
> trickier problems is where one author replies to another. Do you have to
> get permissions from both?

[snip]

> * The permission scheme is very, very important! There are two ways to
> think about permissions: opt-in and opt-out. I think that the author has
> to opt-in on a per post/article basis. Beyond that you can have
> convenience mechanisms -- "I'll just opt-in for all posts so I don't
> have to opt-in on a per article basis."

I thought all posts were archived on the site already? The archive gets
spidered, so no one should have any impression that anything posted to the
list is private.

David