Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!pasteur!ames!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hinojosa From: hinojosa@hp-sdd.hp.com (Daniel Hinojosa) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Procedure for rec.humor.funny debate Message-ID: <1750@hp-sdd.hp.com> Date: 14 Feb 89 15:36:35 GMT References: <2726@looking.UUCP> <7650@chinet.chi.il.us> <2466@cuuxb.ATT.COM> <1018@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> Sender: news@hp-sdd.hp.com Reply-To: hinojosa@hp-sdd.hp.com.UUCP (Daniel Hinojosa) Followup-To: news.admin Organization: HP, San Diego Division Lines: 38 In article <1018@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> "David Wright" writes: >In article <2466@cuuxb.ATT.COM> dlm@cuuxb.UUCP (Dennis L. Mumaugh) writes: >#[...] >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). This is an issue I take with Brad also. I have posted an article to rec.humor and much to my surprise it showed up in r.h.f. . I probably wouldn't care with the exception that I posted the article in rot13. When Brad posted it to r.h.f., it was not rot13 and still had my name on it. This offends my better senses because I am still responsible for the article. I used my judgement, right or wrong, to do all that I could to pro- tect myself from any backlash the article may bring. Brad sees my posting, likes it, it's a slow day on r.h.f., so he uses it. But not the way I posted it. I have taken this up with Brad to no avail other than his promise to in the future make a notation that if the article was posted origanially in rot13. I seem to only be able to protect myself by using a copyright on all of my articles to r.h., which I don't really want to do, but from all I've heard and from responses to questions posed here, I have no other choice. The long end of this is of course that it almost seems that Brad basically gets "the best of rec.humor" for his book. I personally think this is somewhat of an abuse of the net. But, that is my opinion. -- ===================================================================== email - uunet!ucsd!hp-sdd!hinojosa \ / uunet!hplabs!hp-sdd!hinojosa ---------------------------- ---==( o )==--- ---------------------- Jesus saves..but Gretzky gets the rebound! He shoots. HE SCOOORES!!!