Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: Stardates -- contents and copyrights Message-ID: <5195@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 14:38:45 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5195 Posted: Thu Oct 11 14:38:45 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 06:08:39 EDT Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 23 After reading the StarDates for a while (thanks for posting them; even if they arrive outdated, they are still interesting, and I've never heard one on-the-air anywhere!), I am intrigued by a couple points: 1) "right after this" -- are these spots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