Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!sl
From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Protection Against Abuse of Messages
Message-ID: <2213@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 89 08:18:10 GMT
References: <2726@looking.UUCP> <7651@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <7651@chinet.chi.il.us> patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson) writes:

>If they came after [Telecom Digest] -- and I've been told Compuserve
>would like to have it -- I know it would get me almighty P.O.'ed to do the
>work every night and have them charge their bozos $6 per hour to read it.

And what Brad is doing right now will help to prevent that. Remember he is
setting a precedent which will help to protect Telecom Digest until such
time as you actively renounce the compilation copyright.

Your idea for a Usenet wide community trust is an interesting one, but is it
really needed. What is wrong with the moderators protecting their own turf
so to speak simply by holding the compilation copyright. Compuserve for one
is quite unlikely to do anything as long as you mention those words. They
would be afraid to jeopradize their own rights.

This also holds for the recent comp.mail.maps problem (someone selling the
maps). The moderator just has to add a small header asserting a compilation
copyright. Then go after anyone abusing the information in the manner
alleged in some recent postings (if he is so inclined).

-- 
Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca {ubc-cs,uunet}!van-bc!sl     Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532