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In Info-Atari16 Digest #387, otter!gjh@hplabs.hp.com  (Graham Higgins) says:

>Firstly, I won't be getting paid for the usenet articles in STWorld. Two
>factors operating here --- I wouldn't be adding anything of value, except
>a filtering function and discussions in news.admin convinced me that this
>wasn't enough to warrant payment --- and it would rather be an abuse ...
>the usenet feed provided by HP for business purposes.

Well, here in Germany there is at least one magazine that features some Usenet
info, usually slushed up with some general blurb by the columnist.  I don't
think he's doing it for free ...

>Thirdly, "editing" in this context would be providing some introductory
>commentary to a coherent notestring, or selecting the most pertinent
>contributions to a particular string. I would hesitate to edit directly
>the contributions. As Greg pointed out in his email response, it's difficult
>enough making oneself understood on the usenet without being misquoted or
>quoted out of context. Looks like maintaining the integrity of contributions
>is worth making a central objective.

This is indeed a difficult question.  The abovementioned column is usually only
a general summary, and two to three months late at that.  I guess that there
are technical reasons for this.

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