Re: [Evolution] Final Leap

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 18:27 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> Well i dont live in the USA, so DMCA is irrelevent (for now, till
> 'they' bully our laws to match).
>
> Anyway, these are NOT anti copying measures at all, merely an
> undocumented format, so I very much doubt DMCA has anything to say on
> the matter.  DMCA is all about intentional anti-copying mechanisms, of
> which PST isn't an example.

But it's written broadly enough that it's used for other purposes.

> Besides, you're not going to get sued for converting your email.
>
> Its all just bullshit anyway.

Well, yes, but it's still the law in my country, so lawyers can make 
life difficult and costly.

> On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 21:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: 
> > On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 10:08 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 12:44 -0400, Wise, Jeremey wrote: 
> > [snip]
> > > >         c) Is their an import tool from an Outlook Archive?
> > > There's a tool called outport I think?  And the libpst code also has a
> > > tool to dump a PST file into a set of standard unix mailboxes; i don't
> > > know whether those tools provide what you need.  Use google, or
> > > freshmeat to find them.
> >
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/04/msg00256.html
> >
> > I think the only apps that don't breach DMCA are ones that
> > are restricted to OE 4.x.
> >
> > The best thing to do now in use *Windows* Mozilla to convert from
> > PST to mbox.

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Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>