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). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Aldo-Pier Solari [MSc., PhD-cand., Lunds Univ.-Sweden-] at Fisheries Res. Group, Univ. of Las Palmas. Box 550, 35018 Las Palmas - Canary Islands (Spain). em <[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask]><[log in to unmask]> fax<34\28\45 29 22> Remote list owner: FISH-ECOLOGY and FISH-JUNIOR at SEARN.SUNET.SE Requests/administrativia to: <[log in to unmask]> Gateway if e-mail bounces: <[log in to unmask]> *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*