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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Atalk III 1.0e (a tad long, was Re: vt100 v2.9)
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Date: 22 Dec 88 19:16:32 GMT
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In article <242@lakesys.UUCP| mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk) writes:
|In article <14049@oberon.USC.EDU| papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
||Version 1.0e of A-Talk III, which I shipped to OXXI last week for duplication,
||supports "multiple serial ports", through different UNIT numbers.  As Matt
||. . .
||-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
|
|I am taking the liberty at this time to post the "Read-Me" file which came
|with my Atalk-III 1.0e upgrade yesterday (you can imagine my surprise in
|getting 1.0e, after requesting 1.0c!)
|
|(hope it's okay with Marco and OXXI :-)
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Well, sorry but there are TWO major reasons why the posting was inappropriate:

1. As posted, the message is what I would call "blantant advertising". AT LEAST
   you should have warned the user about "COMMERCIAL INFORMATION", stick a ^L
   in there and let him skip if he desires to do so.  In general, there is ONE
   perfect place for commercial postings on Usenet: comp.newprod.  It is
   moderated, so one has to wait a few days before stuff shows up, but all
   flames are redirected to /dev/null, since if you subscribe to it, then
   you know you are getting.

|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|		      A-Talk III -- Release 1.0e
|
|			   December 8, 1988
|
|		   Copyright (C) 1988 Felsina Software
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

2. Did you see that little Copyright notice?  Copyright means "right to copy".
   In general, unless one gets a WRITTEN release, NOTHING on any copyrighted 
   disk can be legally put put in a "public" place, such as Usenet, without
   violating the copyright.  Public domain programs/files on such disks are
   of course excluded from this.


So, for next time, please take the above into consideration.  Note that 
there is a "fair use" of copyrighted material that allows "excerpting"
from it.  Excerpting "a few" lines from the Readme file would probably be
covered by the "fair use" doctrine.  Posting the ENTIRE file, definitely
is not covered.  Now, do I have to add "copyright" to my KILL file ? :-)

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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