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: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:25:54 -0800
On 2/28/01 5:52 PM, Douglas Wagner <email@hidden> wrote:
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I asked off list:
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>> Recently, someone announced we now have a searchable AS-users
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>> archive. Can someone supply the URL?
Actually, you asked on list; you may have also asked in private, but to
pretend that you did not ask on the list is disengenuous.
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Date: 2/28/01 9:58 AM
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Received: 2/28/01 10:16 AM
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From: Douglas Wagner, email@hidden
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To: email@hidden
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Hello:
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The list mom doesn't know and I've searched everywhere I can think
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of, so I'm asking the list at large.
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Recently, someone announced we now have a searchable AS-users
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archive. Can someone supply the URL?
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I expect I'll get a number of replies so please mail me off list.
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Thanks: Douglas Wagner
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http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-users
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I think your response may have been made, more or less, off the cuff.
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Still, it requires an answer.
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1 What is it, that is not approved?
He was quite specific there:
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>Will whoever is running this please contact me? It's not approved, and I
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>need to make sure that it's not circumventing our attempts to protect email
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>addresses from the spam harvesters or violating our privacy agreements.
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3 Apple hosts the list but the members contribute most of the
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material. And as far as I'm aware, there is no law in Canada, where I
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live, that prohibits me from archiving a public list, or extracting
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user names from it for any purpose I choose. Apple's approval is
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irrelevant. Or by "approval" do you mean cooperation, with Apple, in
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the interest of defeating spammers?
Regardless of the law, it is poor netiquette to make public the addresses
of people posting to a mailing list. It is a despicable practice.
And technically, copyright laws do prevent you from archiving the
list--and last I heard, Canada has copyright laws, and subscribes to the
international copyright protocols.
Does that answer your questions, Sir?
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