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

[William Westfield]

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> That would be a copy and require permission, either of all the list posters

Yes.  nearly impossible to get, as I said.

> or at a minimum from the list owner. Some lists make this clear in their charter

Yeah, I suppose that lists/fora with particularly high opinions of their worth might include this in their terms of use, now that there is generally more awareness of “intellectual property and adjacent legalities” than there was in the old days, but it was/is a big problem with older lists, and presumably the more recent “forget me” laws are going to have an unfortunate impact as well.  (The Arduino forum recently proposed a plan to automatically “anonymize” usernames in posts from people who hadn’t logged in in “a long time.”  This was not well received!)

BillW