Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!motsj1!mcdchg!ddsw1!corpane!sparks From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: In Moderation: A Moderator's Response Summary: copyright restrictions Message-ID: <804@corpane.UUCP> Date: 13 Jun 89 19:34:56 GMT References: <41197@bbn.COM> <12113@well.UUCP> <41207@bbn.COM> Organization: Corpane Industries Inc., Louisville, KY Lines: 29 <632@biar.UUCP> <3305@epimass.EPI.COM> Sender: Reply-To: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc. Keywords: It has been stated that your can't put such restrictions in your signature as "not for Portal" because they aren't legally enforcable. Portal gets it's news in batches and can't be expected to check every message. That is so, but I think that in the case of the In Moderation Network, it is a legally viable restriction. Since IMM is claiming to weed through usenet and picking the best of the crop, that means that they have to check articles on a one by one basis. Therefore a restriction such as "Not for In Moderation Network" seems to me to be legal as they should have seen it in their weeding, or they could screen it out with whatever other parameters they use to keep out the 'vermin'. -- John Sparks | {rutgers|uunet}!ukma!corpane!sparks | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 1200bps ||||||||||||||| sparks@corpane.UUCP | 502/968-5401 thru -5406 Although the moon is smaller than the earth, it is farther away.