Excessive avoidance of activities that are not likely to result in legal troubles, but which some people irrationally fear might, is pretty much the definition of "chilling effects" style paranoia.
Seriously, do you think *mailing list archives*, and non-search-engine-indexed ones at that, are actually illegal? It's not even clear that such archives legally constitute publication, and certainly they are far less high profile than many other sources that have *not* been held legally accountable in any way, such as Google's own archives, or Wired's explicit publication.
-Mark
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.