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

[John Levine]

It appears that William Westfield via Internet-history <westfw at mac.com> said:
>> 
>> That would be a copy and require permission, either of all the list posters
>
>Yes.  nearly impossible to get, as I said.

On a list this old, impossible in practice.  Some of the contributors have died,
the rights belong to their estates or heirs, and the work to track them down
and explain what you want and get them to agree would be absurdly difficult.


>> 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, ...

I have moderated the comp.compilers usenet newsgroup for almost 40
years. Every post has gotten the autoresponse below. Once in a while
someone writes to me demanding that I delete an ancient post from the
archives. I ignore them.

R's,
John

When you send a message to comp.compilers, I understand that to mean
that you want me to post it to usenet, which means it will be sent to
tens of thousands of potential readers at thousands of computers all
around the world.  It may also appear in a printed comp.compilers
annual and other books, in the ACM SIGPLAN Notices and other
magazines, in on-line and off-line archives, CD-ROMs, and anywhere
else that some reader decides to use it.

If you don't want me to post something, please send it instead to
compilers-request.