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Re: DejaNews and sff.net
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:15:05 GMT
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Okay. received permission to repost.
Original post from Jeffrey Dwight (techsupport@sff.net):
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 03:53:01 GMT, in sff.admin.announce.discuss you
wrote:
> I didn't think there was much to add. People seem to discover this every
> two or three months. DejaNews is not the only place to carry a selection of
> SFF Net's public groups. Several regular ISPs also mirror some newsgroups.
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> SFF Net is not happy about this practice, but we are still consulting with
> our legal counsel about the wheretos, whyfores, and whatnots associated with
> the whole issue.
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> In general, the SFF Net public newsgroups are public, and you should think
> of them that way when you post. Any non-member can waltz in here at any time
> and read the public areas. If the non-member happens to be an ISP's server,
> who then reposts or mirrors the messages, there isn't much we can do to limit
> that short of a restraining order or lawsuit. We are not eager to pursue those
> options, especially since (a) we want goodwill, and (b) the laws are not
> unambiguous.
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> Our intention was --and is-- that SFF Net newsgroups not be propagated
> elsewhere. We have not reached a happy solution that ensures it.
>
> - j.
Comments he wanted added today:
> Sure, Sarah. Please add that in our experience (since the below was
> written), most ISPs are happy to be cooperative. Others just ignore our
> requests. Some I've blocked. But for every hole I plug, another two or
> three open up. It seems to be a losing battle.
>
> - j.
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| In going back through sff.net's sff.admin.discuss group, I came upon a message that stated that somebody had found their posts to sff.net groups archived on DejaNews (sff.net is a private news board just like lugnet, except focused toward the (...) (28 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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