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In article <EMV.91Jun21060332@bronte.aa.ox.com> emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
>Consider the following prospect.  comp.archives continues on much as
>it is today, except that articles don't have any additional
>information added to them when I repost them, and I don't necessarily
>go to all of the trouble of verifying location information.  Other
>comp.archives contributors add location information, snappy reviews,
>indexes, directories, more keywords, etc etc etc.  The total
>information content of comp.archives is higher because more people are
>working on it, and I work less hard at it than before. 
>
>A second, commercial service provides the same data to its customers,
>plus adds value of its own to the materials and keeps the database of
>information as a whole up to date.  It retains enough of a copyright
>on the whole pile of information that it has gathered and created to
>ensure that it gets credit where credit is due, but allows individual
>pieces of that collection to be distributed freely as long as the
>source of the information was acknowleged.  I.e. tag on an MSEN Seal
>of Approval along with the verification information, so that people
>know what they're getting and who verified it.

	I like this solution (legal questions aside), assuming that the
commercial service is carried on an explicitly commercial news hierarchy
like biz.*, clarinet.*, or your proposed msen.*.  As I've said before,
I have nothing against copyrighted newsgroups.  I just don't want them in
the core news hierarchies (comp.*, sci.*,talk.*, etc.).  I don't want
site administrators to have to carefully track which individual
newsgroups should or should not be transmitted across various networks
or which newsgroups must not be distributed outside of a certain set
of paying subscribers.  Another reason why I don't want the comp.archives
itself to become restricted is that there is no shortage of proposed ways
to continue an unresticted comp.archives.

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