reproduction of mailing list posts

Hey everyone ... The WO Wikibook is pretty sad at the moment, and I  
have been collecting mailing list posts that i found to be  
interesting since about Jan 2005.  I was thinking it might be kind of  
handy to organize snippets and the occasional full post from my  
"filtered" archive into the corresponding categories of the  
wikibook.  It would seem to be helpful to have the content  
categorized (vs just raw-searching the mailing list archives), and it  
would give a shell of some content to work off of (maybe if there is  
some base content available it might stimulate people a bit vs it  
being very empty at the moment).  There are, however, some issues  
with doing this.  I want to make sure that people are actually OK  
with having content reproduced.  I have no idea what the actual  
legality of reproducing mailing list posts is, but aside from that I  
don't want people to be annoyed even if it is technically legal.  So,  
if anyone responds and says they aren't comfortable with this then  
I'll switch over to the ask-first route for everyone prior to putting  
their messages up.

ms