Re: offcial notices

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Kent Crispin wrote:

> > There is no such thing as a 60-day publication period. Once something has
> > been published it is published forever. 
> 
> Sigh.  Semantic quibbling again.  In legal terms you have publication
> periods.  Getting a DBA require publishing notice in an approved daily
> newspaper for, in my case, 3 weeks.  This is referred to as a "3 week
> publication period." "Publication period" is a perfectly meaningful
> andcommonly used term. 

Unfortunately there are no web publications that carry a classified ad
section in which such names could be published. 

> In the case at hand, a 60 day publication period could mean, for
> example, that it appeared on a particular web site for 60 days 
> continuously, and then was removed. 

This is silly. If IAHC has a website and they will publish a gazette on
that website there is no reason why that information should not remain on
the website forever. Running your own website is *NOT* the same thing as
running a newspaper. And, as I said before, if IAHC or CORE was to adopt
the silly rule that deleted info from the website after 60 days, some
other reputable organization would maintain that same data in perpetuity
and everyone would refer to their database as authoritative in the same
way that the US courts refer authoritatively to case law published by a
private company (West Publishing).


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