Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!lll-winken!arisia!quintus!ok From: ok@quintus Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Subject: Logic Programming Newsletter Message-ID: <816@quintus.UUCP> Date: 6 Dec 88 08:05:40 GMT Sender: news@quintus.UUCP Reply-To: ok@quintus () Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 27 I have just today received Volume 2 Issue 2 (Oct/Nov 1988) of the Logic Programming Newsletter. There is a new column in this issue, called "Net Talk". This consists of messages which have been posted to this newsgroup and the Prolog Digest on various topics. You should consult a Real Lawyer (tm) before believing any of this, but my understanding is that the copyright of a message remains with the author, and the fact that something has been broadcast over this or any other network no more puts it into the public domain than the fact that something has been broadcast over the radio puts it into the public domain. "Fair use" would I think cover the practice of quoting parts of a message you are replying to. I don't know whether any of the other people involved were asked for permission to print their messages in the Newsletter. I **wasn't**. Permission would have been given, and is now retrospectively given. But it is at the least good manners to ask. (Yes, I too have been guilty of quoting someone's letter without approval, but not since I was rebuked for it.) I certainly would not have agreed to text which was designed for 80-column display being squeezed into 3-inch columns; that does _terrible_ things to the layout. And if I had been asked for permission to quote my messages on the Monkey-and- Bananas thing, I could have supplied the Logic Programming Newsletter with the iterative-deepening version. I would like to point out that Mark Epperson of the Prolog Forum _does_ ask.