Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: In Moderation: A Moderator's Response Message-ID: <3300@epimass.EPI.COM> Date: 11 Jun 89 16:26:37 GMT References: <41197@bbn.COM> <12113@well.UUCP> <41207@bbn.COM> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 28 In article msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) writes: >I believe that my .sig will allow only UUNET to charge for >redistribution of my articles. I am only allowing them to charge >because I know that they only charge enough to pay for the cost of >doing so. Wrong. Europe can not distribute your articles, since the backbone sites there charge fees to recover their expenses, and there are several areas of the country where several sites are reimbursing their neighbors for the cost of a UUNET feed. I suggest that you dump your .signature. The .signature in question follows: >Mark Smith, 61 Tenafly Road, Tenafly, NJ 07670 msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu >...!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!msmith All Rights Reserved >***You may only charge a fee to redistribute this article if you are >***UUNET Communications Services. On the other hand, one could argue that your .signature is not binding because the very act of posting the article, given the current topology of the net, forces a violation of its provisions -- your article will be forwarded into Europe while the admins there are sleeping or otherwise unable to stop it. -- -- Joe Buck jbuck@epimass.epi.com, uunet!epimass.epi.com!jbuck