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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Geosat transmission of news
Message-ID: <3284@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 89 17:41:48 GMT
References: <371@odi.ODI.COM> <3400@looking.on.ca> <3549@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <3413@looking.on.ca> <1203@ssbn.WLK.COM> <3569@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1989Jun6.154822.13971@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1989Jun6.154822.13971@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>Again, providing that you can redistribute what you receive.  This was
>>Stargate's biggest problem, and if the BC people try this tack they'll
>>likely get the same kind of response from the net at large.

In article <3569@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>Although I have no positive knowledge, it seems to me that Stargate's
>"problem" with redistribution rules has been vastly overblown, to the
>point of being ridiculous.  Only a negligible fraction of messages on
>the net ever carried redistribution restrictions.

Yes, and Stargate planned to carry moderated groups only, and 99.9% of
those copyright notes appeared in postings to non-moderated groups.
Stargate failed for economic reasons, period.  It simply wasn't set up
in a way that made business sense, and the people that ran it lost their
credibility.  The copyright notices had absolutely nothing to do with it.
If everything else had worked, they would be a minor nuisance at most.


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