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From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: huh2
Message-ID: <39321@cup.portal.com>
Date: 16 Feb 91 06:03:33 GMT
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Ed Krimen writes:
>Also, I see that a message of mine was posted in ZNET9105.  Am I at 
>least entitled to be notified of this before it gets distributed?  
>Guess not.  If I let my fingers do the talking as much as I do on 
>this net, I suppose it's up for grabs without the need for a 
>confirmation from the author that it's all right to print it.  It's 
>just kind of surprising to see one of my messages in a worldwide 
>on-line magazine and I didn't even know about it before it was 
>distributed.
 
Both Z*NET and ST Reports extract and reprint messages from UseNet, GEnie
and CompuServe all the time without giving credits or asking permissions.
Many times the messages, for example messages from Atari's Bob Brodie
answering questions on CIS, are extracted without even using "quote marks",
giving the impression they are original material written by the "magazine's"
"staff writers".
 
All with no concern for copyrights...  interesting form of "journalism"...
 
BobR