Re: Where is the Searchable Applescript-users Archive?
Re: Where is the Searchable Applescript-users Archive?
- Subject: Re: Where is the Searchable Applescript-users Archive?
- From: email@hidden (Douglas Wagner)
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:52:09 -0400
Hello Mr von Rospach:
I asked off list:
Recently, someone announced we now have a searchable AS-users
archive. Can someone supply the URL?
and you responded publicly with:
Will whoever is running this please contact me? It's not approved, and I
need to make sure that it's not circumventing our attempts to protect email
addresses from the spam harvesters or violating our privacy agreements.
I really, really wish people wouldn't make these things public without
approval -- I realize it's well-meaning, but it's not necessarily legal or a
good idea.
I think your response may have been made, more or less, off the cuff.
Still, it requires an answer.
1 What is it, that is not approved? The act of making public
material available to the public in a conveniently searchable form,
independent of Apple and so, not controlled by Apple?
2 And what "things" should we not make public, without
approval? Does this mean I can have a private archive but I must not
let anyone else see it? What about my wife, or your wife?
3 Apple hosts the list but the members contribute most of the
material. And as far as I'm aware, there is no law in Canada, where I
live, that prohibits me from archiving a public list, or extracting
user names from it for any purpose I choose. Apple's approval is
irrelevant. Or by "approval" do you mean cooperation, with Apple, in
the interest of defeating spammers?
4 Apple maintains this archive in a form which isn't
searchable. In other words, the archive is, essentially, useless. If
this was not the case, then Sir, you would be able to find the
reference I mentioned, rather than be forced to appeal to the list at
large. If you want to discourage private archives, may I suggest you
consider making the official archive searchable?
Best Wishes:
Douglas Wagner