Check out alt.gossip.royalty. This is a sump of plagiarism, a
playground of one of the great net nuts (it's stolen mostly from
Reuters, some PA Newswire, a bit of Clari.net). She extends these
practices to alt.talk.royalty; it's gotten so bad we're thinking of a
move into Usenet proper (probably moderated).
My point here is that copyright abuse is coming to front and center
as a major issue, and it's an issue that needs *formally* addressing.
Is there room/interest for <news.copyright>?
--
Mark Odegard odegard@ptel.net
The great orthographical contest has long subsisted between
etymology and pronunciation. It has been demanded, on one hand, that
men should write as they speak; but, as it has been shown that this
conformity never was attained in any language, and that it is not
more easy to persuade men to agree exactly in speaking than in
writing, it may be asked, with equal propriety, why men do not
rather speak as they write.
-- Samuel Johnson, "The Plan of an English Dictionary" (1747).
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