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On Sat, 20 May 1995, J.J. Linden wrote:

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> On Sat, 20 May 1995, Lee Lockwood wrote:
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> > > The attached is a press release announcing the formation of an ASCAP-like
> > > service for authors which is designed to facilitate the payment of
> > > electronic rights.
> > 
> > What format?  The release in its present state is unreadable online.  
> > Please re-post in ASCII format.
> 
> Format was "uuencoded", an encoding/compression method normally reserved 
> to send binaries over e-mail (and on the Usenet).

Unfortunately it didn't have a MIME header on it and my mailer dropped it.

> Probably the poster encoded it to save space -- for a press release, a 
> sure sign that it's 5-6 times too long . 

Oh, you know those marketing people, no PR is too long :-).

PR Newswire is about 10 Megabytes/day of Text. :-).

> Jay Linden                                      Business: (416) 463-8932

	Rex Ballard
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	the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.



From rballard@cnj.digex.net Mon May 29 21:02:23 1995