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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The article that was, even though I hadn't
Message-ID: <2179@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 10:54:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2179
Posted: Wed Aug  5 10:54:41 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Aug-87 02:52:14 EDT
References: <8708032106.AA14158@cogsci.berkeley.edu> <1587@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1587@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> page@swan.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
> bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) wrote:
> >What appeared [in RCN] under my name was actually a USENET posting
> >All in all I wish that they had warned me ahead of time, at least so I
> >So watch out USENET posters... you may become magazine authors before you
> >know it!
> 
> And you might never know it.
> ... 
> Next month came another newsletter, and again I find myself an author,
> along with many others.  I think I got three issues before they
> stopped sending them to me.  Once there was some small print in the
> back thanking "The USENET crew" or some such, presumably for our
> cooperation in making Amiga Atlanta's newsletter so full of
> information.
> 
> I wonder how many other newsletters are doing this?  It's actually
> funny to think of [what we consider to be] Usenet Noise as real
> information to others.  Sheeeit, it even gets reposted to People/Link.
> Hi Harv -- do you edit it before you repost it?  Joanne Dow of BIX
> keeps her ear to Usenet; I'm sure Delphi and Compu$erve do too.
> 
> Information sells, friends.

This kind of thing is fairly common among user's group newsletters and
such.  If they don't give any attribution, or edit the article to appear
that you'e written it for them, then you can always try to get in touch
with the editor and give them a hard time.  On the other hand, most people
post things here, hoping the be helpful or spread the information as widely
as possible, rather than just replying via e-mail, so where's the beef?
If you put one of those little copyright messages in your .signature file,
I bet they won't reprint your stuff...

One of the amusing things about posting on BIX is looking to see which of
your postings show up in the back of BYTE 3 or 4 months later.

-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)