Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!servax0!alan From: alan@servax0.essex.ac.uk (Stanier A) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: In Moderation network: how's my .signature? Summary: OK, reword my .signature Message-ID: <1113@servax0.essex.ac.uk> Date: 14 Jun 89 09:58:26 GMT References: <1106@servax0.essex.ac.uk> Organization: University of Essex, Colchester, UK Lines: 33 In article , karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: > A scenario for you... > You are a person who is very knowledgeable about the OmniBlotchWorks > 32x line of (strictly hypothetical) computers. You participate fairly > regularly and extremely informatively in comp.sys.obw32x. Joe Random, > somewhere off in the darkest boondocks of the network, has an OBW32x > and reads your postings religiously, and as a direct result of your > contributions, gains additional expertise and direction by which to > improve his working position, resulting in raises and/or promotions > which would not have occurred without your help. > Joe made a profit (monetarily, career-advancement-wise, or both) from > your postings. > Are you going to attempt to get a lien against Joe's future salary as > compensation for your contribution to his career? No, of course not. But I would expect that Joe would also be posting to comp.sys.obw32x, and I would get some benefit from his postings: this seems to me an acceptable way for him to return to me the profit he has made from my efforts. But I do not see any analagous way I can profit from the IN MODERATION network, who (apparently) plan to take from USENET and give nothing back. However, with your point in mind, can you suggest a better wording of my .signature? I have had several suggestions, and the current layout follows. -- Alan M Stanier copyright A M Stanier 1989 email alan@essex.ac.uk This article may be redistributed for profit only tel +44 206-872153 if all such profit is paid to Dr Alan M Stanier, FAX +44 206-860585 University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, England