Re: New FAQ sites? (was Re: Nathan does it again!)

[bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major)]

In article
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t>, sheldon@atlcom.net (Sheldon Simms) wrote:

> In article <3433CB69.7E45@swbell.net>, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
> 
> >      This is surprising information. There is normally no problem with 
> > someone choosing to exclude access to his/her private site. Excluding 
> > access to the csa2 FAQ's is another matter.
> >
> >      Implicit in being accepted as FAQ keeper is the requirement that one 
> > guarantee that the FAQ's be readily available for downloading by any 
> > Apple II user from an open, free site. If the restriction on access is 
> > not soon removed, it will be necessary to upload the csa2 FAQ's, perhaps 
> > in reorganized form, to one or more new sites.
> 
> Are you claiming that the FAQ that Nathan wrote is in fact public property
> rather than the property of Nathan Mates? What an interesting concept.
> If that is true then I suppose that it would be perfectly fine for me
> to set up a site to distribute the full text of all my favorite novels
> freely to the public.

[delurking....]

Sorry, but I just HAVE to comment on this.  1)  Nathan is claiming full
copyright of this group's FAQ which is WRONG.  He's the one who doesn't
have a leg to stand on.  The bulk of that FAQ existed before he EVER took
it over.  He's maintained it and added to it, but he did *not* rewrite it;
much of the text is as it was written or assembled by the previous FAQ
keeper.  He cannot just claim copyright now because it's in his control.

2) Yes, a usenet group's FAQ IS public property in the sense that any and
all readers of that group have the right to access it at any time.  Nathan
is denying members this right, and he is in the wrong again for doing so. 
This group should be insisting that a different person take over these FAQ
duties.

[lurking mode on....]

--bj
Proud user/owner of Apple Computers since 1984
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