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From: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: philosophical question about mod.recipes and its kind
Message-ID: <147@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 12:47:10 EST
Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.147
Posted: Tue Jan 21 12:47:10 1986
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Reply-To: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Summary: 


     The trouble with [n]etiquette is that it's just an informal way of doing
things that everyone is supposed to agree upon.  If someone decides to break
the informal rules to their own advantage (or that of their organization)
there's not much one can do about it.
     If you want to keep the mod.recipes recipes from being published without
acknowledgement, the only way to do that is to put a copyright notice on each
one, viz.
		     Copyright (c) <year> <copyrighter>
		e.g. Copyright (c)  1986  Jamie Andrews

...but in the absence of such a notice, the material is public-domain:  anyone
can make money off of reprinting them (unless the person contemplating it bows
to netiquette).  I suggest that if it is a real problem, the moderator should
make some agreement with the recipe writers that they all include a copyright
notice in their postings, or reproduce the original notice if it's not an
original recipe.

--Jamie.
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