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From: oz@nexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
Subject: Re: copyright status and future development of comp.archives
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.001311.11155@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 00:13:11 GMT

emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes:

>in the near future, postings to comp.archives are going to be tagged
>with an explicit copyright notice. 

I don't believe your position (within USENET context) as a moderator of a
public newsgroup in a public network, re-posting public information [albeit
after much effort] entitles you to a copyright on that information. I could
be wrong, but since the comp.archives service can be re-created without any
copyrights, it really does not matter.

>this is a step in the direction of
>making this service fully self-supporting, with enough resources
>readily available to the project so that I can afford to keep it
>going.  as i posted in an article to comp.archives a few months ago,
>unless my work on this starts to yield some results, i'm going to stop
>distributing my efforts far and wide for free.  free distribution of
>comp.archives is currently expected to continue to the end of the
>year; if things haven't worked their way out to my satisfaction, i
>expect to step down from moderating comp.archives some time not too
>long after the winter Usenix meeting.  no specific dates set yet.

I think creation of a spiffy super-archieve-information service may indeed
be a much welcomed addition to the existing information services. I also
think it is understood that this is an entirely seperate undertaking than
the USENET newsgroup comp.archieves, which you just happen to moderate
right now. I wish you luck in your future endevours, I hope a worthy and as
dedicated a maintainer of comp.archives may be found after you step down.

>Some people who really enjoy reading comp.archives right be cut off
>from it for some amount of time.  I'm content for that to happen;

If I understand you correctly, I see no reason whatsoever for comp.archives
to be cut off. A new moderator can ensure that the flow of information
continues uninterrupted. There is nothing magical about comp.archives, it
too continues to exist because its a part of USENET, and there is someone
(or more) out there to do the work.

oz
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