[600] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: PSI and Unix Today tough it out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Lee Schoffstall)
Tue Apr 16 12:32:52 1991
To: Roy Smith <roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, gnu@toad.com, sean@utoday.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Apr 91 08:27:53 EDT."
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 91 09:44:17 -0400
From: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>
Roy,John, et al,
Sean Fulton for reasons that escaped PSI shot from the hip not understanding
what was going on, with dozens of inaccuracies; however, considering utoday's
USENET recent history of
1) not understanding how to use cross-postings
2) using USENET as a commercial meta-polling mechanism
both of which they got publicly burned on, so this event while not unusual
on their part has been irritating.
> 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?
No you didn't read it right, you can pass it on as much as you want.
Several questions:
1) Why do they care?
we don't
2) Isn't this totally contrary to the entire netnews philosophy?
if it was true it would be against the oral tradition of USENET
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.
Right
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"
This whole issue was discussed in news.admin for the last 6 weeks (concerning
UUPSI), there was some disagreement concerning the applicability of
copyright'ing of articles an old belief system from past USENET cat
fights.
Can we move this back to news.admin?
Marty
