Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!oli-stl!asylum!sharon From: sharon@asylum.SF.CA.US (Sharon Fisher) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Ten Commandments of Personal Computing) Message-ID: <2963@asylum.SF.CA.US> Date: 19 Jul 89 05:17:53 GMT References: <1444@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Reply-To: sharon@asylum.UUCP (Sharon Fisher) Organization: The Asylum; Belmont, CA Lines: 18 In article <1444@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> morris@jade.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Mike Morris) writes: >"raw material". It would be nice if local items that have wide >interest would be posted in their entirety (sp?), and then commented >on. It may be "nice," but it's also "illegal." Copyright laws and such. One can post a small part of a published article -- that's called "fair use" -- but typing in articles from copyrighted media wholesale is illegal, as well as possibly impolite to the original author. Yes, I realize that a lot of people do it. That Doesn't Make It Right, You Know. -- "Inanna spoke: My vulva, the horn, the Boat of Heaven, is full of eagerness like the young moon. My untilled land lies fallow. As for me, Inanna, who will plow my vulva? Who will plow my high field? Who will plow my wet ground?" Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer