Re: I have no blog

From: Evan Keel <evankeel_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:26:21 GMT
Message-ID: <hGkOg.1963$IA.1637_at_newssvr11.news.prodigy.com>


"Larry Coon" <lcnospam_at_assist.org> wrote in message news:45082875.412B_at_assist.org...
> Evan Keel wrote:
>
> > Pretty fuuny. This guy/gal assumed your personality and even replies
like
> > you do."Post DDL". What ist your next step?
>
> I don't think it's a case of "replies like you do," I think
> that page took some of Celko's actual replies on cdt and
> repackaged them to look like a blog.
>
> Not being an attorney, I have no idea whether what they did
> was legal. I don't think it's illegal to store and present
> your posts on a web page -- for example, Google Groups does
> it for pretty much every post ever made on Usenet, and there
> are myriad examples of sites that repackage Usenet posts in
> specific subject areas. Example for one of my posts:
>
> http://www.dbforums.com/showthread.php?t=542030
>
> So if THOSE are legal, then is this pseudo-blog legal? It
> looks like they're just repackaging Celko's Usenet posts, as
> Google Groups et al have done. They are still crediting
> Celko. The only things that may cross the line are: 1) They
> are significantly altering the presentation; and 2) They are
> including his likeness.
>
>
> Larry Coon
> University of California
>

Larry, you are correct--they are actual replies. Why would someone do this?

Evan Received on Fri Sep 15 2006 - 00:26:21 CEST

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