31 May
2005
31 May
'05
4:24 p.m.
From: "SP" <spedraja at ono.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 3:52 PM
I've never considered "Don's archive" as personal property. Don always
listed it as the DynaSig archive and it was made up of public contributions.
That said Don's wife has possession of the archive and must be dealt with
properly. Possession is not to be confused with ownership.
I have an archive, most of it was donated by others to be shared. I own the
website it is posted on, I believe I have control if anyone mirrors it. I
don't believe I have any control if people take the data and redistribute it
without the little HTML code that I use as a presentation.
For the record I don't care if anyone mirrors my info or downloads it and
organizes it as they see fit.
Another archive that I like and do believe in supporting is Herb Johnson's
private archive. He controls his and pays for much of the material he
archives. At least some of the material he archives must come from
donations, these donations are not public but private. Herb makes his
archive available to those that need it and charges a nominal fee.
In truth the only difference in public versus private archive is in the mind
of the people. Since Don always advertised his archive as a public archive
the fact he charged a nominal fee for the material, postage, and effort it
was still a public archive.
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com
When he died
his wife went to the archive and threw the lot on the fire.
They never knew why.
Tread softly.
Sure. Many times forgot the personal side of one person in front of
her/his
public side. Usually we don't know nothing about the relations with
her/his
most near persons. And logically we don't know about this persons and the
way he conduct themselves... what's important or not for them... or how
one
lost affects themselves, and even if they can want in some moment to
destroy
any reference of the beloved person to forgot completely any shadow of the
person in his environment, leaving only something really important for the
vincule between them.
I'm essentially with Geoff... If you want to see Don's Archive keep and
safe, take care with the way you manage this matter. And for good or bad,
today the owner of the Archive is her.
Regards
Sergio