Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sci34hub!gary
From: gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: UUCP Maps Used For Commerce
Summary: I believe this assumption is WRONG!
Message-ID: <328@sci34hub.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 89 00:17:04 GMT
References: <10017@ucsd.Edu> <3833@itivax.iti.org> <1989Sep21.220406.14140@algor2.algorists.com>
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In article <1989Sep21.220406.14140@algor2.algorists.com>, jeffrey@algor2.algorists.com (Jeffrey Kegler) writes:
> Brian Kantor writes:
> >
> >Even assuming that the maps were copyrighted, ......
> 
> It is not clear to me that mailing lists can be copyrighted.

I believe this is an incorrect assumption. Call TIDS (Technical Information
Distribution Service), or any magazine (Byte, for example) who sells their 
subscriber list and ask if their mailing list and it's subsets are
copyrighted. I think their reply will be a most emphatic YES! Otherwise,
nothing could prevent someone from buying a mailing list and then reselling
it in competition with the originator.

> I suspect the UUCP maps are fair game for abuse, legally, much as I
> regret that.

There's alwasy flame wars...... Anybody grepping the maps for a mailing 
list is obviously connected to the net somehow. Dropping their postage-
prepaid cards and envelopes in the mail without filling them in is also
a simple means of expressing displeasure, since it costs them money...
 
> jeffrey@algor2.ALGORISTS.COM or uunet!algor2!jeffrey

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