Xref: utzoo news.admin:12762 news.misc:6253 comp.mail.uucp:6091 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!athene!pcg From: pcg@test.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Antonio Grandi) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: New rules for UUPSI Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 91 19:22:56 GMT References: <1991Mar04.221119.5075@utoday.com> <1991Mar05.113406.16833@usaos.uucp> <1991Mar5.210338.5356@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Sender: aro@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: aberdb In-reply-to: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG's message of 5 Mar 91 21:03:38 GMT On 5 Mar 91 21:03:38 GMT, xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) said: [ ... on newsfeeds insisting that downstream sites do not redistribute articles fed to them ... ] xanthian> The last time we had someone try to pull this garbage on the net (the xanthian> Stargate project) a bunch of people developed variations on the xanthian> attached signature (the one I did then got quoted in a sociologist's xanthian> study of the issues, a bit of an ego boost), which pretty thoroughly xanthian> squashed that nonsense, since copyright violations carry real world xanthian> penalties. Maybe on your side of the Atlantic; here in the UK the UKnet/USENET gateway does not give a damn about such copyrights, and even forbids redistribution of GNU newsgroups, even source ones. xanthian> The cost of trying to filter thousands of these copyright xanthian> restricted articles out overwhelmed any value of restricting xanthian> distribution of the collections. Some clever people just don't bother... -- Piercarlo Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@aber.ac.uk