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From: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Changes to the monthly postings (for rec.humor.funny)
Keywords: administivia
Message-ID: <474@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 89 20:51:49 GMT
References: <2706@looking.UUCP> <2844@epimass.EPI.COM> <2714@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
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In article <2714@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:

>Recently I have been put through a great deal of personal stress,
>considerable cost in telephone and legal expenses, ill health and
>literally weeks of lost time because of my dedication to rec.humor.funny.

There are a fair number of people whom sypathize.

>Believe me, it's not pleasant to be called a racist on the front page of
>major newspapers, and to become the enemy of the president of your alma
>mater.

No. I think it's time you took a break. Surely these people for whom you do
what you do aren't going to appreciate your breakdown.

>So I decided to affirm that the group is mine, and that I control it,
>and that if somebody wanted to charge money for reading it, I have it in
>my authority to control that, too.

Bad decision. I'd say you've been thinking about it too much, brooding about
it. It's time to back off and re-evaluate your priorities.

>That's all for now.  But believe me, if attacks on me keep up, it's
>not going to be all.  Most of you folks have been really tremendous in
>sending me messages of support and thanks.  I know you're out there and
>thank you for your help.  (I've just written a program to thank you all,
>which I will shortly release freely to the net.)

You ought to save all your hate mail, and re-post it, for our edification.

Perhaps sharing the ugliness might help ...

>But I will have control over what I do, and *I* will get to decide if
>somebody else can make money off of my work.  If you're right in saying
>that the net will laugh in my face for doing this, then I will leave.

Some of us will miss you ... and we hope you return.

>(*) A compilation (editor's) copyright, for those that don't know, is
>a special copyright on a work or service that is a collection of works
>by other people (both PD and copyrighted.)   It claims no ownership in
>the individual works, but rather on the work to collect, edit, select
>and publish them.  It means that nobody can redistribute a significant
>part (or all) of the collection without the editor's permission, or use
>the compilation as a sourcebook for further compilations.

The intent is admirable, but the time is not yet right ...

>Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473

-- richard


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