Acbosgd.1968
net.space
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!eagle!ihnss!cbosg!cbosgd!mark
Mon Jan 18 10:18:34 1982
wire stuff
I beg to differ with you.  Perhaps you can legally say that newsgroups
are only internal mailings, sent to a closed controlled set of people,
but this does not make it true.  In fact, most of the interesting arpanet
mailing lists (including space-enthusiasts) have a copy fed into USENET,
which is neither the arpanet nor tightly controlled.  Most, if not all, of
the contributions you see posted by somewhere!somewhere!somebody@Berkeley
are from somebody on USENET who would not have contributed had the digests
not been posted to USENET in the first place.  The point is, a digest is
in effect a newsletter, not mail, and as a contributor you have no control
or knowledge of who is getting it.  (This is true even on the ARPANET, not
just USENET.)

Since the space news stuff that Adam posts are already on USENET (a less
tightly controlled entity than the ARPANET) and since he retypes things
that look interesting, rather than having an automatic feed, it seems to
me there is no legal problem with the wire services.  (Obviously there would
be no problem in taking them from the newspaper, right?  Same thing.)

The real question being asked is whether the arpanet people on the space
mailing list WANT to get the news Adam posts.  The USENET people are going
to get it anyway.  The obvious thing to do is to try it for a while and
see what the arpanet people think.

	Mark Horton

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