On 5/20/05, Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Thing is, if someone says "contact me for permission", and gives a possibly years unused email address, what can you do? People who give Yahoo, Hotmail or other free webmail addresses are virtually unreachable, because
a) the account could be dead b) the account could get so much spam that messages never get through c) the account might be alive but not used anymore
I can think of at least one image where this is the case. I tried emailing the author, but got no response.
Right, in those cases we just don't use the image. In the case of image on stock.xchng with "no usage restrictions", it's simple enough to send an email informing them that we like their work, and would like to make use of it... This doesn't preclude us going ahead and using it (although I think this is not wise), but it does potentially cut complaints early on, and could likely encourage some more direct contributors.