Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!intercon!kdb@InterCon.uu.net From: kdb@InterCon.uu.net (Kurt Baumann) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: In Moderation Message-ID: <29-Jun-89.175917@192.41.214.248> Date: 29 Jun 89 21:48:39 GMT References: <24A91A67.28396@ateng.com> <3300@epimass.EPI.COM> <197600001@inmet> <14403@bfmny0.UUCP> <3749@viscous.sco.COM> Sender: news@intercon.UUCP Reply-To: Kurt Baumann Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 29 In article <24A91A67.28396@ateng.com>, chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: > According to davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat): > >It's not as if they're doing anything which will affect the net. All the > >IM folks are proposing is sending a subset of messages from the net to other > >sites. > > But that's not all. They're also proposing to limit redistribution of the > articles they forward. Further, this redistribution for which they're > being paid is batches of >copyrighted< articles. I don't know about anyone > else, but I certainly haven't gotten a call from IMN asking if they can > make money from my articles. > -- > You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise. > Chip Salzenberg | or > A T Engineering | Me? Speak for my company? Surely you jest! As much as I hate to get involved in this... They are not making money from your or anyone elses articles. They are making money from sorting through the articles and then sending those that they found to have some content on to their subscribers. Strickly speaking they do not make money off of your articles, but rather from the screening service. -- Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 46950 Community Plaza Suite 101-132 Sterling, VA 22170 Phone: 703.450.7117