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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Geosat transmission of news
Summary: retransmission of news
Message-ID: <737@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 89 12:01:40 GMT
References: <371@odi.ODI.COM> <3400@looking.on.ca> <3549@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
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In article <3413@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:

>Yet the message, "You may transmit this only if your recipients may" is
>very similar to "you may transmit this to your system only if you don't
>deny anybody access to it on your system."   The former was accepted, the
>latter sounds silly.

The two statements above are *not* similar. The first: "You may transmit this
only if your recipients may" does not say you have to give anyone access to
your system. It merely states that if you *DO* have sites that feed off of
you, that you must allow them to retransmit the message without restrictions.

It means that you can't say, "well here is news today, but sorry, you are as
far as it can go. You can't send the news on to your leaf sites."

It says nothing about having to give out access to anybody who wants it. 

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