I maintain two FAQs for the newsgroup alt.support.asthma, and since
these are medical FAQs, tend to be a little on the compulsive side
about having only the latest version available. While doing a Lycos
search on my last name, I found a whole bunch of archived copies of
my FAQs, and much to my dismay, some versions that were over a year
old.
One site in particular is annoying me. I sent email to the sysop,
explaining that the version was very old, and asked that it be
replaced with either a link to my html version of it or a link
directly to rtfm.mit.edu, because of the automatically updating
software there. His response was merely to download the latest version,
with a note to users that the contents of this document changed often
and that the latest versions were accessible at rtfm, etc. I'm really
not satisfied by this. Unfortunately, he's well within his rights,
because my current copyright notice reads:
Copyright 1995 by Patricia Wrean. Permission is given to freely
copy or distribute this FAQ provided that it is distributed in full
without modification, and that such distribution is not intended for
profit.
I think I'd like to modify this to include the provision that publicly
accessible archives must have either automatically updating software
or my explicit permission, but haven't been able to come up with wording
that pleases me.
So, FAQ-maintainers, am I making a mountain out of a molehill? Is this
something that just goes with the territory, or should I modify my
copyright, and if so, to what?
Pat
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