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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Stardates -- contents and copyrights
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Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 14:38:45 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 11 14:38:45 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 06:08:39 EDT
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After reading the StarDates for a while (thanks for posting them; even if
they arrive outdated, they are still interesting, and I've never heard
one on-the-air anywhere!), I am intrigued by a couple points:

1) "right after this" -- are these spots carried by commercial stations
that stick in an ad at this point? Is this usually sponsored by some
advertiser in a consistent manner (e.g., "StarDates are brought to you
each day by Gummies, the cereal that gets gooey even without milk")?
I ask this because the kind of information StarDates provide is what
I expect to hear on a non-commercial public-radio station, not on a
commercial broadcaster. When you finally do publish the list of
stations carrying StarDates, please indicate which is commercial and
which is non-commercial.

2) "Copyright 1983,1984" -- I can't figure this out; there must be some
legal arcane reasoning for this, I suppose. Why give two years in the
copyright notice? Why not just "Copyright 1984"?

Just curious... Anyway, keep up the good work!

Will Martin

seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin     or     wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA