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Re: Fuck UseNet (fwd)
From: IN%"[email protected]" "Jim Choate" 15-FEB-1997 07:11:54.43
>Perhaps in addition to the X-foo structures we have discussed already we
>might consider adding,
>X-distrib-policy: foo
>Where foo might be,
> Public Domain
> All rights reserved, contact author for redistribution
> Distribution for non-commercial uses permitted
> Refer to authors header
> Copyleft
> etc.
>or whatever the policy might be for a given remailer. This would
>significantly aid folks in their shopping around.
The basic difficulty with this idea is that _senders_ generally
don't have much of a choice where the messages go, once you've decided
to accept them. In other words, just because you've decided to accept
a message doesn't mean it suddenly becomes
copyleft/public domain/whatever. Now, if you, say, announced that only
subscribers to your particular list, subscribers to any other lists
adopting the same idea, and those who'd sign a consent agreement could
post through your list, that wouldn't be a problem... although I
suspect you wouldn't get many subscribers.
-Allen