On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 at 07:16:02PM -0600, Ben Parker wrote:
>
> In general, every person who posts a message to a list, forum, etc. owns the
> copyright on their own expression (message).  The mere act of posting
> necessarily releases that to the 'public'.

Got a court case to cite? I strongly doubt that the courts will hold
that a copyright holder loses that right by posting. By that reasoning
an author would lose copyright by publishing on dead trees.

A great deal of open source software is posted, but the author often
retains copyright.

-rex