Re: Is sharing .mbox files of a public mailng list allowed?

(2013/10/22 10:26), Ian Jacobs wrote:
> People who post to W3C lists give W3C permission to distribute the messages in our
> archives. I am not aware that posters have also given permission to others to distribute
> the messages.

Ok. That makes some sense, but it also seems to mean that the gmane
mirrors are violating copyright?

> I can ask our legal team for their views.

+1

(2013/10/22 10:45), Ted Guild wrote:
> This was the whole point of the NDA hoop we went through...  you have
> your nod to analyze what you can from our archives with the
> permissions we gave your account.

But I suppose I don't have the right to publish my analysis (except
those that fall into the realm of fair use)? I am really unfamilar with
this copyright stuff....

> We deliberately do not make full, raw emails available publicly as
> they contain more and arguably personal/sensitive data not exposed in
> the html archives. The html archives only give a pertinent subset of
> header data.

Ah, right. (Provided that copyright issue can be resolved) I think it
would then be nice to have the version of .mbox that have a reduced set
of headers. Perhaps this is what pipermail does?

> We make the mboxes available to Members, "Invited Experts"
> participating in our Working Groups and those like yourselves we deem
> trustworthy. They are extremely convenient when catching up on a
> mailing list to be able to import portions into a mail client,
> respond with References and In-Reply-To, have history and threading
> for threads that might have started before joining a group.  There is
> also quite a few deductions that can be made which is what we're
> interested in your assistance with.

The benefits are why I am asking this here. This should also be able to
reduce the amount of duplicated information on any list.


Cheers,
Kenny
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Received on Tuesday, 22 October 2013 03:04:30 UTC