[9486] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Inmac, junk mail, and the death of the net.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John [Francis] Stracke)
Thu Jan 6 19:39:43 1994
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 18:30:19 +0500
From: francis@avalle.insoft.com (John [Francis] Stracke)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Bill Sommerfeld's message of Thu, 6 Jan 1994 17:45:04 -0500 <9401062245.AA19096@psi.com>
>It occurs to me that an appropriate semi-technical solution to this
>problem is to have finger or fingerd put a copyright notice in its
>output barring redistribution or resale of the information.
I don't think the output of finger is original enough to be
copyrightable. Otherwise, we could all claim copyright to our street
addresses, and the junk mail people would die a horrible death. Too
bad. :-)
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