Infact here is a good idea. If anyone is worried about the possibility of getting sued regarding this "Archives breech the Privacy act" rubbish. Then the answer seems to be to host them in a country that does not have such a privacy act (ie most other countries). I'm sure there are enough international people in this list that that would not be a problem. The New Zealand privacy act (and rabid laywers wanting their 15 minutes) would have IMNLO as much say over the archives in another country as they would over the www.whitehouse.gov website. Dean On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:50:38AM +1200, Lin Nah wrote:
http://www.idg.net.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/29322B8165E1E256CC256A94001886CB!open...
Bah What a load of ... Firstly the lawyer, Mike Cronin appears to have confused mailing lists with newsgroups.
Secondly he says Principle nine of the act requires that "an agency that holds personal information shall not keep that information for longer than is required for the purposes for which the information may lawfully be used". "I think an archive of a newsgroup could well be covered under this principle,"
How does a mailing list or even newsgroup archive differ from a newspaper archive?
Lin
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