While performing an interpretive dance to Enya's Carribean Blue, Larry
Qualig exclaimed:
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> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>> On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:38:30 -0500, flatfish+++ wrote:
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>> > I'm pretty much convinced that Roy is being paid to post all these
>> > articles in COLA by someone that has an interest in positive publicity for
>> > Linux.
>>
>
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>> One might think so, but if you explore his site, you'll find a quantity of
>> self-flaggelating content that puts Rex to shame. He appears to have saved
>> every message he's ever written in any forum, for example. I think he just
>> likes to read his own messages.
>
>
> I did explore his site and there is certainly some questionable stuff
> on Roy's site. For example, here is basically an entire archive of
> COLA:
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> http://www.schestowitz.com/UseNet/
>
>
> A very large percentage of the content there is from COLA posters other
> than himself.
>
> This is certainly a copyright violation. He has the right to post his
> *OWN* usenet postings but according to copyright law, he has no right
> to put other peoples USENET posts on his site.
>
>
> http://www.tufts.edu/tccs/p-overview.html
>
>
Hmmmm.. Interesting.
So how come you're not going after Google?
Or for that matter Deja News and the thousand of other ISP's that archive
their own copies of Usenet for commercial purposes?
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