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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: In Moderation
Message-ID: <1583@frog.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 89 21:35:00 GMT
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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.

A fascinating thought.  What if they simply sent their subscribers
(copyrighted) lists of article ID's which the subscribers would then
bundle into sendme control articles that are then shipped to their local
full-feed site?  I suppose InM would have to restrict this to leaf nodes,
though perhaps a full-feed site itself could benefit from receiving the
list of article ID's which would be used by newsreader programs to allow
the readers to read the "good" articles while still allowing the machine
to perform the "useful public service" of forwarding entire USENET feeds.


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