[598] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: PSI and Unix Today tough it out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy Smith)
Tue Apr 16 08:29:05 1991
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 91 08:27:53 EDT
From: Roy Smith <roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu>
To: com-priv@psi.com, gnu@toad.com, sean@utoday.com
> they couldn't forward third party email NOR could they pass on the
> netnews.
Wait a minute. Did I read that right; PSI is selling netnews feeds
that do not allow you to pass on the news you recieve to somebody else?
Several questions:
1) Why do they care?
2) Isn't this totally contrary to the entire netnews philosophy?
3) If I were to decided to purchase such a feed, how would I even
implement it? No news software that I'm familiar with will allow you to
route news based on where you got it from.
4) Am I going to have to start adding copyright notices to all my
news articles, like some I've seen from other people, saying, "distribution
prohibited unless no further restrictions on redistribution are imposed"
