Re: Lazy man's google search of the group...

Jason,
I suggest it would be prudent not to do that until you have researched the copyright legal aspect.

But I note that this is a forum open to the public.
So all questions and replies have been made in the public arena.
And copyright laws permit some use of copyright material for study and research. So copying af what has been said and done entirely in the public arena could be argued as fair and reasonable.

It would be interesting to put the facts to a law university to see what they think of the issue. I suspect a copyright holder may not only lose a court action but could leave themselves wide open to a counter-suit for attempting to limit freedom of speech. A potential class action by 2900 odd people could also be a little persuasive.

Of course there is another alternative. Leave out the material that is claimed to be copyright.

Walk softly, carry a big stick.

Bob Thomas

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "killthiskid" <jaskew@u...> wrote:
> >
> > What you have already done is excellent but there are still
> shortcomings in the quest for searching within this list.
> >
> > Regards
> > Bob Thomas
> >
>
> Thanks for the feedback... there are shortcomings, of that there is
> no doubt. But I am trying! ;)
>
> I'm to the point now where it seems the only real way to have a
> comprehensive handle on things is to have all the messages stored
> somewhere I can get my hands on them.
>
> I might just screen scrape the whole darn thing. Someone said there
> may be copyright issues... someone care to explain them?
>
> How about if I make a search but never expose my copy of the messages
> and just refer the person searching to the yahoo post?
>
> Jason