Fair use?

[George Bourdaniotis]

I was googling myself just now, as you do, and I found this page in the results.
http://injapanese.us/community.php5

I realise that the Honyaku list is open to the public to view, but
should people be allowed to repost what we post here to the list?

George

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George Bourdaniotis
Kobe Japan

[Nora Stevens Heath]

George Bourdaniotis wrote:

> I realise that the Honyaku list is open to the public to view, but
> should people be allowed to repost what we post here to the list?

I had one of my list-private messages reprinted in what I believe was
the dead-tree (and later digital) newsletter for the Japanese division
of the ATA. I found it online in a Google search (it's no longer there)
and was pretty steamed, as I remember. I was not a member of the ATA at
the time, not that it would have mattered. My message was lifted
signature and all.

Asking permission in advance is the least one should expect, and would
be the polite thing to do--legalities notwithstanding. IANAL.

Nora

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Nora Stevens Heath <no...@fumizuki.com>
J-E translations: http://www.fumizuki.com/

[Mika Jarmusz]

My page George mentioned is just echoing the RSS feed Google makes available. 
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http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46384
Can I have an RSS feed for my group activity?
Yes, we currently supply both RSS and Atom feeds for every group. To view a group's feed information, go to the group's homepage and click the "About this group" link on the right-hand side of the group's homepage. Under "Feeds," you can select "Latest 15 messages (RSS)" or click "View all available feeds (RSS and Atom)" to see all of your feed options. Most feed readers will accept both RSS and Atom feeds.
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Mika Jarmusz 清水美香
       English to Japanese Translator
       http://inJapanese.us

[John Zimet]

"Honyaku is a discussion forum of professional Japanese translators. Through participation, we improve our linguistic awareness in both languages and hone our skills as communicators. "
Complete with links.

To me it looks like free advertisement for Honyaku.

And extremely well done.

John Zimet

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Best Regards
John

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--- George Bourdaniotis <powers...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was googling myself just now, as you do, and I found this page in
> the results.
> http://injapanese.us/community.php5
>
> I realise that the Honyaku list is open to the public to view, but
> should people be allowed to repost what we post here to the list?

Hi George,

imagine you were to attend a public meeting of your favorite translators'
association and, a week later, you were to hear from a (non-translator)
acquaintance some specific comments to a certain discussion at that
conference. And imagine further that, upon asking him how he learned about
this matter, he told you that one of the conference attendee's husbands
worked in the same office as he and told him about that discussion. Would
you ask yourself (or him, or us), "Should people be allowed to tell others
what they heard or said at a public meeting?"?

The honyaku list is not only open to the public to _view_, it is also open
to being copied (selectively or wholesale), archived, re-transmitted,
re-mixed, or data-mined. And to milk the analogy of the public conference a
bit more, the honyaku list is like a conference that is not only open to
the public but broadcast live on TV - worldwide. ;-)

Did you perchance envision this list to be something different...?

Regards: Hendrik





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