On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Tracy Marks <tmar[_at_]tiac.net> wrote:
>
> Now a situation has arisen in which the list has the opportunity to post
> all the archives of the group since its inception on a public site on
> the Web. Anyone on the Internet will have open access to them. The
> listowner, who happens to be a lawyer, adamantly supports this new
> development, as do many of the members who do not care if their posts
> are openly accessible. A small minority - interestingly enough, all
> women - are opposed to this, and view it as a personal, ethical and
> perhaps also legal violation of copyright and individual rights.
Alow me to suggest a non-copyright approach. I manage a list on medical records privacy. The discussion list itself is intended to be public, and I have resisted efforts to restrict the redissemination of the discussions, because it is intended to be a public dialogue over policy issues, and we are seeking more openess in government policy making. That said, one member of the list didn't understand that the archives of the list are easily searchable on the Web, and he asked me to remove some personal comments he had made about his own medical condition. I talked with our sysop, and decided to retroactively remove all posts with his name from the archives. We did not remove copies of responses by other that may have included portions of his posts.
jamie
Consumer Project on Technology; http://www.essential.org/cpt Taxpayer Assets Project; http://www.tap.org
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