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From: bcarter@claven.idbsu.edu (Bruce Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: copyright status and future development of comp.archives
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Date: 26 Jun 91 22:11:14 GMT
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In article <56075900D99F401D02@vms.cis.pitt.edu> emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti)
writes:
>in the near future, postings to comp.archives are going to be tagged
>with an explicit copyright notice. [*]  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.

While I don't disagree with anyone trying to make a buck (or even break even)
if this sort of thing becomes popular (there are a few who do this on the
commercial services) I think you may see signature files similar to the
following popping up.
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Bruce Carter, Courseware Development Coordinator      bcarter@claven.idbsu.edu
Boise State University, Boise, ID  83725                 duscarte@idbsu.bitnet
Copyright (C) 1991 Bruce A. Carter-All Rights Reserved     (208)385-1250@phone
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