Digital BW, The Print

Greg wrote:
" - in the future I will indeed try asking in mailing list whether
   any member wants to opt-out before I include their posts."

As Emerson put it, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds."
It appears that you still do not get it, and that even in your attempts to
incorporate the feedback from this group into your future policies you
continue to justify what you have done, and to propose what will continue to
be violations of copyright of members of this or other forums.

The appropriate action would NOT be to ask a list if anyone on it wants to
opt OUT before appropriating their information, but to ask the list members
if anyone wants to opt IN. Anyone who responds that he or she wants to opt
in gets included. Everyone else gets excluded. As you run across new list
members whose posts you want to include, you e-mail them your request. If
they say, "Sure, I'm in," then great. If they ignore your message, or
decline to be included, then you don't take their information.

Unless you ask explicit permission of each person whose information you want
to use, you are stealing that information. And in the process you are
generating an incredible amount of ill will, which is hardly a sound
business practice.

- David