On 24/06/2014 03:20, Neil Sloane wrote:
Dan, Of course. I should have said that I made them anonymous. The full archive of math fun postings is on the web, by the way, although only members can see it. ... On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:56 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote: ...
I just want to say that when I post to math-fun, I would like to be asked specifically before my post is passed on to any other party (or venue).
Anonymity would solve Dan's problem if his only issue were (say) the risk of embarrassment if he writes something silly. But it won't help if (say) he considers that what he writes is creative work whose distribution he should be entitled to control. Suppose this were the poetry-fun mailing list, and Dan were writing sonnets. He might be annoyed at having them circulated to others without his permission, even (especially?) if his name were detached from them. I think it would be a good general rule if material posted on math-fun weren't distributed elsewhere without at least some attempt to check that its writers were happy for that to be done. -- g