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On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 16:09 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > c) Party B wishes Party A to perform out-of-the-routine maintenance and admin > work on said system for reasons of personal preference based on their own > failure to understand said system before using it. Actually, this is the root of the problem. It is not out-of-the-routine. In fact, the routine practice on most email lists these days is obfuscation of email addresses. A further problem in this case is that the sourceware policy makes it clear that the list administrator was cognizant of the issue. That is negligence, at best. The offer to charge for correction makes things rather more sticky. As to legal threats, I stated that I did not intend any legal action against sourceware.org. I don't. For the record, I don't intend any action against Chris either, but when someone adopts the lousy attitude that he adopted, it is appropriate to point out that lousy attitudes can carry a cost. Whether the legal action would have merit is one matter. Whether a poster angered by a crappy attitude might feel inclined to test in a court is the real issue -- and much less certain. They don't have to win the case to make life profoundly irritating for people at sourceware -- which was my real point. On balance, wouldn't it be better all around for the people involved in running the list to exercise simple courtesy and human decency rather than arrogance and incompetent extortionism? shap -- For unsubscribe information see http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq
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