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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: The Cincinnatus Society of Pinheads
Message-ID: <15800@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 21 Oct 88 07:16:44 GMT
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In-reply-to: mcb@eris.berkeley.edu (Michael C. Berch)

In article <15798@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, mcb@eris (Michael C. Berch) writes:
>There are two important points here.  First of all, the practicability
>of adding -- or attempting to add -- notice to all copies of a Usenet
>article is seriously suspect.  And "adding notice" means exactly that
>(there are some cases on this); it does NOT mean sending letters to
>people saying, "Oh, by the way, that book I shipped you a while back
>was copyrighted".  It means getting one's hands on the copies
>(literally or figuratively) and adding a copyright notice in the
>appropriate manner (printed, electronic, etc.).

Hmmmmmm....

So what happens if I were to repost my article with a Supersedes: header
and a copyright notice?  The theory is that this hunts out for all exist-
ing copies on USENET and replaces them.  Not that I think any are left.

This ignores, for the sake of argument, the "inadvertant omissions" clause.

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720