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From: jpp@specialix.co.uk (John Pettitt)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: ukc breaking its own rules?
Message-ID: <1989Dec6.152339.1165@specialix.co.uk>
Date: 6 Dec 89 15:23:39 GMT
References: <257A85B0.6E59@telly.on.ca>
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evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>The UK maps as posted in comp.mail.maps contain:

>>#	Copyright 1989 by EUUG. All rights reserved.
>>#	Permission to redistribute and use for routing purposes granted.

>Fine. But how does this jive with a letter I received recently? The
>letter was addressed to:

>Evan Leibovitch
>System Telly
>[address]

>The ONLY place I am identified this way is in the UUCP maps!

>The contents? An advertisement for "The Miranda Functional Programming
>System", from a commercial venture called Research Software Ltd. in the UK.

>So which site supplied the Usenet mailing list for commercial purpose?

>Hmm. There's an e-mail address given: mira-request@ukc.ac.uk - the
>University of Kent, the UK Usenet gateway! Inside the ad we are
>introduced to the inventor of Miranda, Kent Professor David Turner.

You are correct that they got your name from the maps,  they got me from
the same place.   I have been in contact with uknet@ukc.ac.uk and it appears
that the list was taken from an old, non copyright, version of the map.

I am told that all map derived addresses have now been purged from the
mailing list.

I suggest that is you still get mail from them you mail uknet@ukc.ac.uk
and ask that they check it out BEFORE posting a flame to the net.

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