Re: Anyone have a comprehensive list of sharks?

Eternal the Impossible Dreamer (bnb@ukc.ac.uk)
Wed Apr 6 22:50:43 1994

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In your message of Wed, 6 Apr 94 16:02:50 CDT you said:
>> A "problem"? You're selling someone else's work,
>> and they're the "problem"?
>
>WE WERE DISTRIBUTING IT ON USENET. The fact that it was on CD-ROM made no
>difference. Period. Are you distributing your FAQs on USENET ? Do you have
>a real definition for USENET ? The content on the disks were free, the
>distribution cost money! UUNET is selling usenet feeds. So did we, just a
>bit slower and delivered in larger spurts.

FAQ's are an provided as part of the USENET service, if they are taken out
of this forum then they are being used for something they were not designed
for. In a large number of cases the FAQ's need to be viewed in the context
of the newsgroup they related to, otherwise they make no sense, they can
also make no sense after a short time has past.

I'm not sure what the legal grounds are for us complaining about ours FAQ's
being taken out of context like this, but it sure is morally wrong to do it
without even asking, or even just telling us before the event.
Brian Blackmore, The University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom.

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