US some based private e-mail providers ?
 
Dear Seniors,
 
During the past  week  our  request  address  was approached several
times by private e-mail providers who'd  like  to  redistribute  not
only our list traffic but our compiled information too.
 
There  was  a  case  in  which  a  polite  no  (because of intrinsic
copyright aspects, etc.) was followed by another message stating:
 
    "We are for profit  ...   and  *our* policy *is* to redistribute
     lists when a user requires it ..." -  and  further  replies  to
     that  message  would  bounce, and to the postmaster at the .com
     site would bounce too.
 
What is going on in the  US with this sweep-away-piracy ?  -And what
can one do to enforce <at least> respect FOR OUR subscribers  <whose
rights to their INTELECTUAL PROPERTY and PERSONAL INTEGRITY is being
*deliberately*  VIOLATED  by  some go-for-the-buck electronic-sharks
?>.
 
Americans connected to Internet -and  elsewhere-[and this *is not* a
flame] talk lots about Freedom, Rights and the  like  and  I  wonder
w-h-y  there  have been Americans *only* who'd behave in such a way:
Is not INTELECTUAL PROPERTY  considered  SO important there ?. There
are private e-mail providers in Europe too but nothing like this has
been detected from them <in my lists at least>.
 
As a matter of fact: --> I  am  SICK of this behaviour from US based
(yes, always from US-BASED) private, small  e-mail  providers.   And
this  is getting from bad to worse as the list grows and the quality
of traffic and archives get bigger and better.
 
Is  not  there any board which checks and tracks any such violations
?. I am sure at this  very  moment  many of these sharks are braking
your very list-site policies and making  profit  from  NON-MERCENARY
efforts AND TAX-PAYERs HARD EARNED CONTRIBUTIONS.  BUT what is being
made (if anything at all) to stop this ?.
 
I would  very  much  appreciate  some  advice  from  US based Senior
Listowners on HOW to deal effectively with this.
 
    Thank you for your attention.
 
        Aldo-Pier Solari (FISH-ECOLOGY).
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Aldo-Pier Solari [MSc., PhD-cand.,  Lunds Univ.-Sweden-] at Fisheries
Res. Group, Univ. of Las Palmas.  Box 550,  35018 Las Palmas - Canary
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