> From: Dan Lester <[log in to unmask]> > > I know everybody has their own rules.....but on lists I manage this would > get you a first and last warning for the blatant copyright > violation. Posting the URL is fine, posting the whole article isn't for > two reasons: First, copyright law violation. There is no difference whatsoever between loading the article in your Web browser (which duplicates it, even in Lynx) and reading it in a mailing list (which duplicates it). The fair-dealing provisions of Canadian copyright law (since I am not American, I do not care about U.S. law) would make quotation of this sort quite legal *if* the original poster had cited the source and reiterated its copyright notice. > Second, filling mailboxes > with stuff that a relatively small number of listmembers want to read. A > second violation would get you zapped. Bah. This is a mailing list, not an exercise in clairvoyance. The article absolutely *was* on-topic for Lstown-L, and besides, in *every* mailing list there are occasional posts that person X or Y doesn't give a damn about. However, an article on, say, growing tulips would clearly be off-topic. Moreover, desubscribing people summarily like this is totalitarianism, not listmanagement. Nopost and Review settings are much more appropriate punitive measures, not that I concede that there was any cause for punishment at all. -- Joe Clark [log in to unmask] <http://www.interlog.com/~joeclark>