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From: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Illegal Editing, Tampering of ST Report by Greg Lindahl
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Date: 28 May 90 13:55:57 GMT
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In article <2824@bdt.UUCP> MICHAEL_ARTHUR@bdt.UUCP writes:
>Ralph Mariano, and the staff of ST Report have recently obtained evidence th
>Greg Lindahl, who sends issues of ST Report and ZMag by E-Mail to several
>people on UseNet, has engaged in illegal activities concerning ST Report.
>
>Specifically, there is evidence of Greg Lindahl's having deleted large
>segments of ST Report, changed its content to suit his tastes, and added some
>of his own information to the issues of ST Report which he later E-Mailed to
>other people on Usenet.
>
>Since ST Report is a copyrighted publication, and such editing is illegal,
>Ralph Mariano wishes to express his sentiments that if Greg Lindahl is indeed
>doing such a thing, that he stop immediately, because such actions would
>incriminate both Greg Lindahl and other sources which he uses in the course of
>perpretrating such acts.
>
>
>Having been asked to post this message by Ralph Mariano (Publisher of ST
>Report), I also relay his request for dialogue with him on this matter....

Well, it is no secret that Greg and I disagree on quite a few issues, but
I think he is justified in his activities.  Namely, he edits out all the
advertisements and dead wood from the report.  Not only do I appreciate
this personally (it saves me from paging through all the crap), but it
also saves the net money.  Why should the net be paying to distribute
10K of advertisements each week?  Also, whenever Greg adds anything
to the Report, he always puts it in brackets and clearly states that
the contents is his opinion, not that of the author.

All this is silly anyway.  As far as journalistic qualtiy goes, ST
Report is plain trashy.  It is often inaccurate, the author frequently
shows his personal bias in reviews, and the advertisements are 
a bit much.  That is why I unsubscribed from it months ago.  I can't
justify using 80K of disk space each week to hold that shabby 
magazine.  

Your mileage may vary...

Chris
 
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