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: <09-Jul-89.234056@192.41.214.241> Date: 10 Jul 89 03:29:12 GMT References: <3600@looking.on.ca> <3300@epimass.EPI.COM> <197600001@inmet> <14403@bfmny0.UUCP> <3749@viscous.sco.COM> <24A91A67.28396@ateng.com> <3579@looking.on.ca> <24B4CCD7.5183@ateng.com> Sender: news@intercon.UUCP Reply-To: Kurt Baumann Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 54 In article <3600@looking.on.ca>, brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: > Let's not get down to the read my lips level... > > But you say IMN might limit redistibution on articles. But do they? > Some deleted (ahh, I think I just stepped on some peoples toes :-)) > > But can you re-send *all* the articles in an IMN group? No. It is the > collection that you can't redistribute, not the articles themselves. > > Where does the borderline reside? It's undefined. In the end, if anybody > wanted to go that far, a judge would decide if the bulk redistribution of > some large chunk of something like IMN captialized unfairly on the moderator's > efforts. > > But I still don't understand the fuss, and particularly from Patrick Townson, > who, at last account, made great speaches about how a moderator should have no > control over what happens to a group once he/she sends it out. > -- > Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473 Someone with some sense. Come on folks what is the problem here? Someone is making money. That is the problem. You all would rather that no one make money from what you feel are your efforts. But the problem is that these people are not making money from your efforts, but rather their's. Look at it this way: I say, "Gee I hate going through all 3,000,000 articles daily in comp.sys.mac. What I would like is someone (or something) to go through and pick out the ones with content, not the ones asking for the 5,000th time how to copy a disk. Yeah, that's what I want." INM comes along and says gee you know I have someone who reads comp.sys.mac all the time and they are good at picking out what articles have some informational content as opposed to flamage, or silly questions (not that any question is silly when you need an answer, but I don't have time to save the world everyday just some days :-)). Now it is up to me to decide, probably after using the service for a bit, if this is what I want, and if they ARE good at finding what I am interested in. Or I go use Brads stuff and have it electronically picked out for me based on what I put in. In BOTH cases I have access to the full news feed so that I can take a look. In no case is anyone making money off of your article, just off of picking out the ones that are worthwhile reading. Simple, no? This is what the newspapers do for me everyday. If I want to read it all I read the raw UPI, AP, Rueters, etc... wires and wade through it all myself. Truth of the matter is that I do not have the time to do that. -- Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 46950 Community Plaza Suite 101-132 Sterling, VA 22170 Phone: 703.450.7117