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From: sharon@asylum.SF.CA.US (Sharon Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Usenet messages on CIS, GEnie
Keywords: Hmm, Usenet appears on CIS
Message-ID: <9274@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Date: 26 Dec 89 06:45:36 GMT
References: <2327@sactoh0.UUCP> <1989Dec25.105130.23070@lsuc.on.ca>
Reply-To: sharon@asylum.UUCP (Sharon Fisher)
Organization: The Asylum; Belmont, CA
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In article <1989Dec25.105130.23070@lsuc.on.ca> jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes:
>     This is a long standing problem and we've been wrestling with
>it on BIX.  If I can blow our horn a bit, at least on BIX we *care*
>about how people feel about moving messages from Usenet to BIX.

I'm not sure that that's globally true.  Somebody posts stuff from the
NeXT newsgroups here to the NeXT forum on BIX, and when I asked if the
person had asked permission, I was told no because 'it was public
domain.'
>I've shared messages from 'rec.arts.anime' with some specific people
>on BIX, but I've only made general postings of things on special
>occasions and usually with specific approval by authors.  

>     But this leaves me with a problem:  If people are doing this on
>Compuserve and Genie, then BIX may be at a competitive disadvantge
>because I've been the "good guy".  So maybe I should change my practice
>and start posting a digest of 'rec.arts.anime' on BIX?  

Sigh.  Presumably you do what you do because you are not happy morally
or ethically with the concept of posting stuff wholesale.  So isn't it
better to stick with your conscience?