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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: UUCP Maps Used For Commerce
Message-ID: <1989Sep16.005736.8803@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 16 Sep 89 00:57:36 GMT
References: <2048@avsd.UUCP> <1989Sep15.160053.25109@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <1989Sep15.160053.25109@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> by coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge):
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| Usenet in general. Of course, some of us add lines like:
| 'You may redistribute only if your recipients can' (anyone remember the
| Stargate flap?) which tend to settle the issue once and for all: unless
| the recipient of a moderated news flow is free to send my postings on,
| they can't themselves carry my postings.
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This can get you in trouble, too.  Pat Townsend rejected a submission of mine
to the Telecom Digest because he could not guarantee that the people he mailed
Telecom to were willing to redistribute it.  Note that this is not *his*
doing, but he would be in effect violating the copyright if he sent a Digest
containing my submission to someone who operated (or was forced to operate)
under a rule forbidding redistribution.

So what's the problem?  Because of a *few* recipients of Telecom Digest, *no*
recipients got to see my submission.  (I didn't resend it, because CWRU's
network got zapped soon after I got the rejection notice and someone else had
responded by the time it was fixed.)  Some may call this tyranny, but it's not
Pat Townsend's, nor any other moderator's, job to maintain special
"these-sites-and-all-sites-fed-by-them-and-so-on-down-allow-redistribution"
lists -- and I guarantee you that the maintainers of the sites in question
don't review incoming postings and remove those which they are not permitted
to carry.  (Although they should, since it's *their* responsibility to make
sure they obey the law.)

++Brandon
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