On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Bonnie Scott wrote:
> >
> > At 4:46 PM -0800 1/2/97, Stan Ryckman wrote:
> >
> ...snipped
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> There is an essential difference. Alta Vista is not re-publishing. They
> aren't making a copy available to others. They had the right to
> one copy, which they look at, slice, dice and shred, and their output
> is something they have done to analyse its properties. They are NOT
> making copies of the works for other people. Deja News is. They are
> offering someone else's works at a time and in a method that the original
> author did not intend by making the original posting.
Just to clear this up for me a bit. I understand your comment regarding
AltaVista slicing/dicing to create links to original content. But, they do
have that 'Search Usenet' option and that seems to work just like
DejaNews, with links to copied content that resides on their own servers.
Am I right -or wrong?
Milt Webb
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