It seems to me like more of a case of being afraid of getting sued (which is of course a legitimate concern IMO and a very reasonable one considering the current situation) than being afraid of a lawsuit that actually has a legal ground. From what I've seen, the companies were making a case that the numbers are copyrighted (if this assumption is wrong, you can skip to the last sentence), which seems like a bullshit claim in a country where copyright depends on creativity. If there is a successful [copyright law-related] lawsuit (against digg or whomever) it'll be a sad day. Deleting these e-mails from WMF servers doesn't mean we should just as well delete e-mails concerning possibly libelous information, etc. as there is no threat of a probable lawsuit like there is in this case.
-Yonatan
On 5/6/07, daniwo59@aol.com daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
It's unfortunate when not wanting to break the law is considered paranoia.
Danny
In a message dated 5/5/2007 10:51:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, delirium@hackish.org writes:
Are you going to suggest we purge all emails that ever mentioned potential libels, too, in all the arguments over WP:OFFICE? Rather than imagining that the sky will fall, imagine the consequences of excessive paranoia.
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