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From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Musing on Constitutionality
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Date: 2 Sep 90 16:10:51 GMT
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Both Erik Fair and Mike O'Brien suggest that Clarinet may qualify as a
regular electronic publication.

I don't believe that it does.

The folks at Clarinet originate nothing new with the material they
transship (unless things have changed recently).  Nor do they do
anything to the material of an editorial nature.  All they do is take
in information from wire services & syndication organizations,
classify it according to which Clarinet newsgroup and keywords headers
belong, then ship it out.  

That isn't a publication, it's a clipping service.

That isn't intended to detract from Clarinet, btw.  I think it is an
innovative and useful service (if I had the disk space, I might
enroll).   However, I don't see that as an example of a true
electronic publication with paid subscribers, regular issues, etc.
-- 
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	uucp:	...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf