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From: mjm@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Michael McClennen)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: In Moderation
Summary: a suggestion that might stop this argument
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Date: 5 Jul 89 19:05:45 GMT
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Here's an idea:  Why don't the IMN people simply distribute (via whatever
mechanism they choose) each day a comment on the day's news feed -- a list of
articles that they deem worth reading -- and provide each subscriber with a
special news reader program that processes both the usual news feed and the
comment list and only shows the user the selected articles.  That way their
subscribers could continue to use (and re-distribute freely) the standard news
feed, and would merely be restricted from re-distributing the article list
(and other comments provided by IMN) which are of course protected by copyright.

Another advantage to this scheme would be that subscribers would still have
access to the full news feed, so that if they came across a reference to
another article that IMN might not have deemed worthy, they could still get
to it.

Anyone object to this?

-- Michael McClennen