An added complication might be that the site with the archives had a note somewhere that it was accepting ads from google to help defray costs, that is, the unauthorized archives are contributing to the sites revenue. -Kary On 30 Dec 2006 at 22:31, Pete Weiss wrote: >SPAM-L had a somewhat similar discussion w/i the last month. > >/Pete > > >At 20:43 12/30/2006 Saturday, Elizabeth wrote: >>I don't belong to any association; I don't have a lawyer; I don't get paid >>for what I do. I just wanted some general, layman's advice about the topic >>of copyright. I have since searched some university websites and found out >>that we all were thinking along the right lines. >>I'm going to leave it up to those in charge, who host the list, to decide >>what to do. They will be the ones to actually enforce their policies.