[META] Other People's Stories

[Andrew Perron]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:03:02 +0000 (UTC), Dave Van Domelen wrote:

> In article <1vmkyjg3aqejk.1fgm3rntoohd8$.dlg at 40tude.net>,
> Andrew Perron  <pwerdna at gmail.com> wrote:
>>So... no ideas? ^^;
> 
>      It's somewhat hazy ground.  It can be argued that anything posted to
> Usenet may be archived by third parties, because by its very design Usenet
> *is* a third party archive...a whole series of them.  There's an X-no-archive
> line you can put in headers that will generally tell any automated archivers
> to not grab a post, although these days I'm not sure people can even insert
> that line if they have the wrong gateway interface.  

True, true.

>      Mind you, I believe Eag already archives all RACC stories automatically,
> or at least all LNH stories, so there's implicit permission if the authors
> haven't objected to that.

It's a good point.  I was thinking of providing links to the pipermail
archive for non-me stuff, but it doesn't go quite far enough back.

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, hm.