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From: apc@cblpe.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.stargate
Subject: Re: Restrictions on Stargate
Message-ID: <488@cblpe.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Apr-87 20:41:36 EST
Article-I.D.: cblpe.488
Posted: Sun Apr  5 20:41:36 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 6-Apr-87 23:39:25 EST
References: <103@stargate.UUCP> <998@rpics.RPI.EDU> <5626@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <716@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Reply-To: apc@cblpe.UUCP (55212-Alan Curtis)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Columbus
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In article <716@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
>
>> If we at BU start receiving Stargate, we won't stop MIT from getting
>> our USENET feed (but NOT our Stargate feed unless they pay), just
>> like it has since we first started receiving netnews.
>
>Except that there will be groups, mod.sources say, which will be coming
>in both via normal USEnet mechanisms *and* via Stargate.  The way
>things seem to be going, you'll be allowed to send on only those
>articles that came in over the phone.  This is counter to the way
>USEnet has always worked, and were I netnews admin at BU, I would find
>this unacceptable.

I would assume that stargate (like iran-gate?) would do "it"
"right".  They would supply sg.mod.sources, and a list of
what mod.sources articles are included, and the following
"recomended" organizational software:
Two article trees are maintained, sg and phone.
Whenever you read news, your (sg supplied) rn will give you
articles from sg/* first, and then any articles in phone/* that
you have not read in sg/*.

Any site can then forward phone/*.

Now where the (next) problem comes up is:
I just read sg.jokes and I want to post a flame to jokes.d
Since I am not sg, I can only post to phone.jokes.d but I
(being a good netizen) include the significant (likely small)
portion of the original article, but it is copywronged, what will
I do?  (I know, but is it legal.  No, but will I get "in trouble"?)

SG will therefore make replying to articles a REAL pain!  I would
have to wait until the phone copy of the article came in to
reply to it, but by then I could forget what I wanted to say
( I am soo very old..)
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