Question: Mailing Lists Legal Information

[Momchil Ivanov]

Greetings,

I have a strange question that has been bothering mi mind in the past 2 hours 
and it`s about legal notices. Nowadays almost everything is digital and there 
is usually some copyright/copyleft or whaterver other legal notice assigned 
to almost every piece of bits/data (binary programs, source codes, images, 
docs, etc...). In this way of thoughts every e-mail should be considered some 
kind of intelectual property belonging to its author, shouldn't it?

So I was thinking: should there be some kind of legal notice when subscribing 
to a list (respectively sending an e-mail to a list, not being subscribed to) 
that says that the author gives exclusive rights to The FreeBSD Foundation to 
store (archive) and redistribute (the way mailing lists work) e-mails being 
sent to the list?

I have been thinking about this since some people use in their signatures 
texts like:
"You should not copy this e-mail or use it for any other purposes or disclose 
its contents to any other person."

Correct me if I am thinking complete nonsense, please! Mailing list have been 
live for a long time now, but I think nowadays they need subscriber's 
permission to redistribute, store and publish subscriber's mails on the web.

Thank you for your time reading this :)

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