Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!uvaarpa!murdoch!astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU!gl8f From: gl8f@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Illegal Editing, Tampering of ST Report by Greg Lindahl Message-ID: <1990Jun2.190218.5446@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 2 Jun 90 19:02:18 GMT References: <2943@bdt.UUCP> Sender: news@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia Lines: 55 In article <2943@bdt.UUCP> MICHAEL_ARTHUR@bdt.UUCP writes: [...] > >Ralph Mariano said that such actions would only be aimed at Greg Lindahl and >possbibly UVA, if and only if Mr. Lindahl didn't stop changing ST Report to >suit his own style of thinking. Ok, here we have a statement that actions might be taken... >Neither I, or Ralph Mariano are making threats against anyone. Ralph Mariano >is saying that Greg Lindahl doesn't have the right to edit ST Report, since he >doesn't make it, and is violating the copyright laws.... And here we have a statement that no threats are being made. Well, that's good. But note that anything you can sue UVa about for distributing ST Report can be used against every other institution on the Internet which had this mail carried over the links that they lease. Come to think of it, you could sue the telecomm companies that own the lines, too. I hope Ralph knows what he's getting into. Second, Ralph isn't a lawyer. I'm amazined that he's so sure that I'm violating laws. I am not a lawyer, but it's obvious that I'm not violating the old ST Report copyright. I would suggest that you go look at the back issues at the changes I actually made before you or Ralph jump to any conclusions. Or maybe Ralph prefers it if I leave in misspellings and factual errors. Maybe Ralph prefers it if I violate UVa policy, US Government policy, and lord-knows-what-other-policy by leaving advertisements in something I send over the Internet. Third, the only result of Ralph's action is that he has destroyed any possibility of ST Report being carried over the Internet. I have some 261 people directly on my mailing list, and they passed ST Report on to many bbses in the US, Europe, and other continents. Perhaps next time he might send me some email before he cuts his own nose off. Fortunately, there's no problem here. Almost all of the people above also receive Z*Net, which is (IMHO) a much better magazine, full of interesting articles, stimulating editorials, and has no advertising. The only thing I've ever cut from Z*Net were entire articles that had nothing at all to do with the Atari ST. And the Z*Net copyright continues to allow me to do so. Thanks, Z*Net. >I will next post what Ralph Mariano has said in this week's issue of ST >Reoprt, in order to COMPLETELY clear up whatever misconceptions there are >about what he said.... I hope you got permission from Ralph, because you just violated his copyright. I hope he doesn't sue you. Have a nice day. -- "Perhaps I'm commenting a bit cynically, but I think I'm qualified to." - Dan Bernstein