Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!chinet!rissa
From: rissa@chinet.chi.il.us (Patricia O Tuama)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Changes to the monthly postings (for rec.humor.funny)
Message-ID: <7631@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 4 Feb 89 22:21:25 GMT
References: <2706@looking.UUCP> <2844@epimass.EPI.COM> <2714@looking.UUCP> <2847@epimass.EPI.COM> <2718@looking.UUCP>
Organization: Ecrasez l'infame!
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In article <2718@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
[...]

Well, I have some questions:

1) is it even possible to limit enforcement of copyright to a segre-
   gated class (ie, public access sites)?  I thought copyright pro-
   tections apply uniformly across all classes; do you have the right
   to selective enforcement?

2) assuming you do have the right to this kind of limited enforcement,
   do you have any reason to suspect or fear that you will suffer any
   kind of financial, professional or personal loss if public access 
   sites continue to receive YOUR news.group?

3) there are public access machines that do not charge user fees; can
   we assume your selective enforcement policy does not apply to them?

4) has Compuserve or any similar system approached you WRT to carrying 
   r.h.nf?  Does Compuserve carry any newsgroups now?  


>Actually, that number looks nice and big.  Perhaps I will follow the
>instructions of some of the attackers here in news.admin and give the group
>its own hierarchy that is charged for...   I'm being semi-serious here,
>at least if the attacks keep up.

Perhaps the Usenet community should begin charging you to carry YOUR
newsgroup and/or hierarchy?  You once computed for me the cost of the 
average posting and email message.  How much would you be willing to 
pay to propagate YOUR newsgroup?

Classic Trish