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From: patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: In Moderation
Message-ID: <8831@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 2 Jul 89 14:27:10 GMT
References: <3300@epimass.EPI.COM> <197600001@inmet> <14403@bfmny0.UUCP> <3749@viscous.sco.COM> <24A91A67.28396@ateng.com> <3579@looking.on.ca>
Reply-To: patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <3579@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>In article <24A91A67.28396@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>>But that's not all.  They're also proposing to limit redistribution of the
>>articles they forward.
>
>Not as I understand it.  Anybody is free to distribute almost all of the
>individual articles they forward, individually or in small groups, or
>as a subset of a larger feed.
>
>You just can't redistribute the exact same set or something just like it.
>
>In the same way, while I am free to do anything I like with all of the words
>in the unix spelling checker dictionary, I am not at all free to copy the
>complete list to anybody.

And that is the problem I have with In Moderation or any other such service
which would use TELECOM Digest/comp.dcom.telecom. 

I specifically want it to be available for anyone to use, word for word,
just as the readers have written it and just as I have compiled it. I do
not want changes in it and I do not want so much as a single word removed
from it or restricted.

I do not want a fee of any sort to be levied for reading it, nor any
restrictions applied for passing it along except one: that when it is passed
along, it must be intact, word for word, article for article, with no
changes of any sort.

No one is to charge anything for reading it, except that I will send it
direct from my mailing list  -- not via some other service -- to anyone on
a pay system who indicates to me it is more convenient for them to receive
it there even though they have to pay for it. Thus, I send copies direct
via email to portal, chinet, MCI Mail, AT&T Mail, and other places.

But TELECOM Digest/comp.dcom.telecom is NOT available to anyone else who
wishes to resell it or edit it in any way. I do all editing, period. Any
transmission which involves money goes from me to the end subscriber when
the subscriber has told me to send it through the pay service. Pay services
in and of themselves are NOT entitled to take the work of myself and my
readers/subscribers and use it in any way.

Would drawing a picture help? Maybe someone can translate this message
into sixteen different languages also. TELECOM Digest/comp.dcom.telecom is
to be distributed freely, and completely intact -- or not distributed at
all.


-- 
Patrick Townson 
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