[ih] Internet Histories Volume 9, issue 3 is BS

[touch at strayalpha.com]

> On Oct 10, 2025, at 1:51 PM, William Westfield via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> It's like any mailing list, surely.
>> Your copyright is yours on anything you write.
>> We are aware the mailing list archives are, rightly, available to be read, but that doesn't give anyone any rights to reproduce the material further.
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> Historically (back on topic?) this has been a feature and a plague on important pieces of internet history.
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> At least it seems possible to host archives of such things in their original form (unedited?)

That would be a copy and require permission, either of all the list posters or at a minimum from the list owner. Some lists make this clear in their charter, but we haven’t largely because this list was never part of any formal organization that would have imposed such a policy.

I don’t know how I would answer such a request. This list is for *discussions* of Internet History; it is not itself an Internet archive. I appreciate that many of the posts could be interpreted as useful for the latter, but they need to be posted elsewhere for that to happen.

Joe