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From: gjh@otter.hpl.hp.com (Graham Higgins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Contribution copyright query
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Date: 7 Aug 89 19:20:37 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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Firstly, thanks for the considered nature of the responses. After reading
them and pondering awhile, I have a few points to add.

Firstly, I won't be getting paid for the usenet articles in STWorld. Two
factors operating here --- I wouldn't be adding anything of value, except
a filtering function and discussions in news.admin convinced me that this
wasn't enough to warrant payment --- and it would rather be an abuse of
the usenet feed provided by HP for business purposes.

Secondly, I reckon that UK STWorld readers would be more interested in the
strictly technical contributions rather than the discussions. I would much
rather steer away from contentious issues --- and so would STWorld I would
imagine.

Thirdly, "editing" in this context would be providing some introductory 
commentary to a coherent notestring, or selecting the most pertinent 
contributions to a particular string. I would hesitate to edit directly 
the contributions. As Greg pointed out in his email response, it's difficult
enough making oneself understood on the usenet without being misquoted or
quoted out of context. Looks like maintaining the integrity of contributions
is worth making a central objective.

Thanks again for the guidance.

Cheers,

Graham
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