Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!nexus.yorku.ca!oz From: oz@nexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) Subject: Re: copyright status and future development of comp.archives Message-ID: <1991Jun24.001311.11155@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System) Organization: York U. Communications Research & Development References: Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 00:13:11 GMT emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes: >in the near future, postings to comp.archives are going to be tagged >with an explicit copyright notice. I don't believe your position (within USENET context) as a moderator of a public newsgroup in a public network, re-posting public information [albeit after much effort] entitles you to a copyright on that information. I could be wrong, but since the comp.archives service can be re-created without any copyrights, it really does not matter. >this is a step in the direction of >making this service fully self-supporting, with enough resources >readily available to the project so that I can afford to keep it >going. as i posted in an article to comp.archives a few months ago, >unless my work on this starts to yield some results, i'm going to stop >distributing my efforts far and wide for free. free distribution of >comp.archives is currently expected to continue to the end of the >year; if things haven't worked their way out to my satisfaction, i >expect to step down from moderating comp.archives some time not too >long after the winter Usenix meeting. no specific dates set yet. I think creation of a spiffy super-archieve-information service may indeed be a much welcomed addition to the existing information services. I also think it is understood that this is an entirely seperate undertaking than the USENET newsgroup comp.archieves, which you just happen to moderate right now. I wish you luck in your future endevours, I hope a worthy and as dedicated a maintainer of comp.archives may be found after you step down. >Some people who really enjoy reading comp.archives right be cut off >from it for some amount of time. I'm content for that to happen; If I understand you correctly, I see no reason whatsoever for comp.archives to be cut off. A new moderator can ensure that the flow of information continues uninterrupted. There is nothing magical about comp.archives, it too continues to exist because its a part of USENET, and there is someone (or more) out there to do the work. oz --- Often it is means that justify ends: Goals | email: oz@nexus.yorku.ca advance technique and technique survives even | phone: 416-736-5257 x 33976 when goal structures crumble. -- A. J. Perlis | other: oz@ursa.ccs.yorku.ca