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Those pages WERE a useful community resource.

Daniel Norton writes <337c6efa.2399249@news.albany.net>:

> From: danorton@chsw.com (Daniel Norton)
> Subject: Daniel Norton's Capital District Pages Gone
> Newsgroups: capdist.announce,capdist.misc,alt.culture.ny-upstate,ny.general
> Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 20:44:08 GMT
> 
> While I am proud that people visited the various local-topic pages that
> I provided thousands of times each month, I am sorry to report that I am
> no longer publishing the local-topic web pages.  It seems that DigiCom
> Internet Services, Inc. has chosen to disregard my copyright claim on
> those pages.  While I was happy to provide the indexes as a community
> service, I will not allow them to be used for commercial purposes
> without just compensation.

Clarification sought:

Is Daniel saying that DigiCom copied his pages in order to offer them
through its own web site as if created by DigiCom?

I could NOT find copies of those pages at "http://www.digicom.com"
this morning.

Could it have been that DigiCom was attempting to mirror those pages
in order to reduce inter-provider network delays (which have at times
been severe)?

If the latter, there should have been visible full attribution as to
source.

If an author does not want pages mirrored, one way to make this clear
is to insert an HTML comment at the top of each such page, e.g.,

<!-- DO NOT MIRROR; DO NOT COPY except for making a single private
     copy for personal use. -->

                                   -- Bill

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