Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!tikal!sigma!quick!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!dww From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Procedure for rec.humor.funny debate Message-ID: <1018@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 12 Feb 89 11:30:14 GMT References: <2726@looking.UUCP> <7650@chinet.chi.il.us> <2466@cuuxb.ATT.COM> Reply-To: "David Wright" Organization: STL,Harlow,UK. Lines: 27 In article <2466@cuuxb.ATT.COM> dlm@cuuxb.UUCP (Dennis L. Mumaugh) writes: #I have a modest proposal. ... #I'll take my archives of comp.unix.wizards and comp.unix.questions #and news.announce.newusers and .... And I'll publish a book on #Everything You Wanted to Know About UNIX and Were Afraid to Ask. #Someone else can tackle comp.arch and publish a book on computer organization. What a good idea - why don't you? I might even buy a copy if it's any good. You'll need to take a few safeguards - if taken from a group YOU moderate, you should include in the 'administrivia' the fact that you plan to produce a book which will include articles from the group, and that submitting an article to you without objection to this possibility grants permission to publish the article in such a compilation. If you include articles from other groups, you should of course contact the original poster first and request their permission. Brad *does* post such a notice. (Maybe he didn't way back when the group started, but he does now). I don't see any objection to his forwarding articles from rec.humor into rec.humor.funny either, though as that group does not have a statement from its (non-existant) moderator saying "I may publish your joke in a for-sale book if you don't object", I do not think Brad should use articles posted to rec.humor in his annual book without first asking the poster, (hopefully he does, or will in future). -- Regards, David Wright STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, UK dww@stl.stc.co.uk ...uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!dww PSI%234237100122::DWW