[Commons-Law] mail legalese - Sarai's options ?

[Aniruddha Shankar]

wrote: 
> my  only concern is
> this-as long as the list admin is identifiable (and
> in this case sarai is),

True

> the fact that it has control

Would that be the case if the archives are hosted by
MARC ?  MARC  won't remove a particular email from
it's archives unless a court with appropriate
jurisdiction (insert Private International Law
nightmare here) orders it to do so.

In the above case, Sarai would be the list admin and
would merely perform the purely administrative duties
of registering new members and removing unwanted
subscribers. 

I am unsure as to why Sarai should host the archives
at all.  Sarai can transfer the resource intensive
burden of hosting them to MARC, which will do so for
free (and provide extensive search capabilities) -
under the understanding that the only entity that can
get individual emails expunged is a court with
jurisdiction. 

Incidentally, MARC also hosts the archives of
politech, a mailing list about technology and
politics, dealing with issues such as free speech and
intellectual property.

Karim

for more information

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?q=about#Privacy



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