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[Michael Still]

Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 09:28 AM 24/02/2009, Michael Still wrote:
>> Archival services exist... There is no time limit on public publication.
> 
> I doubt very much if they archive the contents of a database of a 
> commercial catalog, do they? There are reasons to use a database that 
> has nothing to do with archiving. The value depends on the ephemeral 
> nature as Paul said. Not all information is valuable, let alone 
> equal. There should be an ability to avoid archiving as well as 
> indexing since the person who stored it for net access should have 
> control over who sees it. Or do you think that all information that 
> is stored in a net-connected storage should be discoverable for public display?

The distinction should be through access control mechanisms. If you're
not authenticating / authorizing users properly, you can't complain that
people didn't magically figure out what you meant.

Mikal