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From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The 16/32-bit Computer Support Team
Message-ID: <42117@cup.portal.com>
Date: 8 May 91 04:33:19 GMT
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Very interesting idea... sort of an "on-line" Atari user group...
 
Just a couple of comments/questions...
 
>     Do you want a bulletin board that has only the MOST valuable informatio
>coming from Usenet, CompuServe, and GEnie?

 
Not a flame, just a caution...  be careful about extracting information from
commercial online services... while they don't like to make an issue of it,
they DO claim a compilation copyright on the contents of the service.
If you read the fine-print in the membership application, you'll see that
they generally prohibit the reposting of information without express
permission, generally on a case-by-case basis.  The recent flap in the
GEnie ST Roundtable over extracting portions of messages is a case
in point.
 
They're in business to make money from the information on their service,
and they'd naturally rather have the people come to them and pay for
it.
 
>A person who does not call Compuserve or GEnie
>but writes reviews for products can trade his reviews for their Compuserve
>and GEnie information.  Everyone benefits by joining the 16/32-bit
>Computer Support Team.

 
A question... would you be willing to let your reviews be re-posted to
GEnie or CompuServe..?
 
BobR