Subject: Mailing Lists (WAS: Newsgroups) From: jennifer.kersten@midplains.net (Jennifer Kersten) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 06:16:42 -0600

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>-> My understanding is that ASCII text published on USENET is in the public
>-> domain. You could try putting a copyright statement on it, but I'll bet
>-> you'd lose if you tried to enforce it. I'm not at all sure about mailing
>
>If "publishing" is the act of distributing material to the public, and
>if allowing material to fall into a "public" area constitutes placing it
>in the "public domain," then we are all in trouble. 

Following this line of thinking, then are things distributed to a mailing
list also public domain?

Just curious.

Jennifer Kersten
jennifer.kersten@midplains.net


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