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2 total messages Started by authorplaceholder Tue, 24 Mar 1987 10:03

#58

Author: authorplaceholder
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1987 10:03

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I haven't seen all of the particulars on this issue, but if the matter boils
down to a per-machine reception/usage license for receipients of the service
which parallels the USENET, then my opinion of the "The Stargate Team's" sanity
is that they have a death-wish, and should be psycho-analyzed.

This is suicide, folks!  Don't you want this service to work and *augment* the
network?!  Think about it from another point of view for a few minutes.

		Kurt F. Sauer
		Oklahoma City, OK

Post Scriptum:  I think it would be a shame if we had to resort to copyright
notices like the following one, which happens to apply to this article.

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(C) Copyright 1987 Kurt F. Sauer.  Permission is granted only to retransmit
this document by electronic means known as the USENET, and copies may be made
on machines which received this document through the USENET only for purposes
related to the USENET, including routine data backups.  All rights reserved.
This document may not be copied, transmitted, or otherwise reproduced, in
whole or in part, for any purpose, whether for profit or not for profit, by
any means, electronic, manual, or otherwise, without the express written
permission of the author.

Copyright notices (absurdity)

#28

Author: gmp
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1987 17:14

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In article <60400001@gorgo.UUCP> ks@gorgo.UUCP writes:
> (C) Copyright 1987 Kurt F. Sauer.  Permission is granted only to retransmit
> this document by electronic means known as the USENET, and copies may be made
and on and on...

These copyright notices are rapidly becoming absurd.  Who knows
what unexpected restrictions are going to be placed in these
articles.  I think the only safe solution to this problem is to
change rnews to automatically throw away all articles that contain
a copyright notice.  That way, there's no danger of accidentally
violating the copyright.  Maybe we could exempt certain newsgroups
like the sources groups where these notices serve some useful
purpose, but the rest could be trashed with no loss.

-- 
Greg Paris ............................. gmp@rayssd.RAY.COM (a UUCP domain)
{cci632,cbosgd,gatech,ihnp4,linus,mirror,necntc,uiucdcs,umcp-cs}!rayssd!gmp
................................... What is your current form of execution?

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