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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Yes, I can sell a jokebook via USENET.
Message-ID: <79232@sun.uucp>
Date: 29 Nov 88 17:39:01 GMT
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>What I REALLY wonder is how long it will be before someone decides to
>try this with some other group.  I'm sure a compilation of, say,
>soc.singles postings would do quite well as a mass-market paperback;
>it might take a bit of creative editing, but I'm sure you can see the
>possibilities...  Just a small matter of talking to my friends in the
>publishing business.

Just ask Brian Reid -- this happened to mod.recipes (now alt.gourmand) years
ago. Which is one of the many reasons why OtherRealms is the way it is, and
why I scream as loudly as I do every time someone mucks with my copyrights
to OtherRealms material on the net (violation #3 and counting....)


Chuq Von Rospach	Editor/Publisher, OtherRealms		chuq@sun.COM

I come not to bury Caesar, but to praise him. For Brutus is an honorable
man. So are they all, all honorable men.