AW.: Re: archives in HTML & other ramblings

I am absolutely firm about this: Unless I have the right to withdraw any of
my postings, I do not want my contributions to the Mills archives to be
transfered to any other site. I have already had the experience of having my
postings misrepresented in external citations, and I wish to limit the
potential for further misrepresentation as much as possible. While many
people who cite the list do seek permission from individual authors to
include citations, this is a far from universal practice. I would hope that
the wishes of the author would be respected in this matter; if this is not
the case, then I have no choice but to simply stop posting.

Drew Skyfyre argues for an "integrity" of the list contents. Anyone who has
participated in the list for any length of time will surely realize that the
list lacks (and happily so) any trace of design integrity. The discussion is
wide ranging in topic, tone, and level. As wonderfull as some individual
postings may be, there is a huge amount of items with rotten orthography,
ill-formulated expressions, errors of fact, and (yes, even here) intemperate
outbursts. These are not the proceedings of some political or legal body, so
the veracity of the record is of far less importance than the right of
contributors to present their work in the form that they choose.

Daniel Wolf