Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: In Moderation
Message-ID: <3601@looking.on.ca>
Date: 8 Jul 89 05:04:55 GMT
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In article <24B4CDB3.5287@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>According to mjm@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Michael McClennen):
>>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 [...]
>
>Now this idea I like.

It doesn't change much.  In fact, I had this idea many moons ago when I
considered doing something like what Geoff's doing.  (I decided to do
ClariNet instead, something totally different from USENET.)

But let's say a moderator makes a list of approved or un-approved articles.
You think this is OK.  Would you then forbid a site from asking that this
list control their FEED, and not just their reading?

But if it controls their feed, it's exactly the same as IMN.  Including
the redistribution restriction, since the feed is an instantiation of the
copyrighted list.

And most would want the list to control their feed, and not just their
reading.  At least small sites or sites that pay long distnace charges.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473