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On Sun, 11 Jun 1995, Curt A. Monash wrote:

> Suppose somebody created a boilerplate e-mail letter of a couple of
> paragraphs describing this mailing list, including purpose, volume, and
> readership, and fired it off to the "generic" e-mail addresses of newspapers
> that have such.

I think most of the newspapers are on this list.  It would still be a 
nice gesture to make sure that everyone was in on this conversation.

> Suppose when somebody wanted to post an article, the same letter were
> adapted to be a request for permission to post.

Better yet, just promise to keep a running count of how many references
are redistributed from each publication.  If we suddenlty find 5 
articles/day showing up, we would want to make sure that the contributing
publication received something of value (guidence on setting up web 
servers...)

New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and severral others have gained far 
more than the $10-$20 worth of "license fees" just from the "free" 
consulting provided by some the techological leaders of this list.

> Would said permission be granted in a timely fashion, do you think?

The most important thing would be to mkae sure that you keep the 
attribution as part of all subsequent quotes.  It's a bit frustrating
when someone quotes WSJ and the next 15 follow-ups quote the text but not 
the attribution.  On the other hand, I have been quoted and have seeded
several articles without being given attribution.  I would actually have 
to be careful about not being quoted as an employee/spokesman for 
McGraw-Hill.  I could be quoted as a technical analyst.

> Curt Monash
> cmonash@mcimail.com

	Rex Ballard
	Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill
	Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect
	the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.




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