From: "E. Allen Smith" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 07:41:07 -0800 (PST)
To: ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com
Subject: Re: Fuck UseNet (fwd)
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From:	IN%"ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com"  "Jim Choate" 15-FEB-1997 07:11:54.43

>Perhaps in addition to the X-foo structures we have discussed already we
>might consider adding,

>X-distrib-policy: foo

>Where foo might be,

>         Public Domain
>         All rights reserved, contact author for redistribution
>         Distribution for non-commercial uses permitted
>         Refer to authors header
>         Copyleft
>         etc.

>or whatever the policy might be for a given remailer. This would
>significantly aid folks in their shopping around.

	The basic difficulty with this idea is that _senders_ generally
don't have much of a choice where the messages go, once you've decided
to accept them. In other words, just because you've decided to accept
a message doesn't mean it suddenly becomes
copyleft/public domain/whatever. Now, if you, say, announced that only
subscribers to your particular list, subscribers to any other lists
adopting the same idea, and those who'd sign a consent agreement could
post through your list, that wouldn't be a problem... although I
suspect you wouldn't get many subscribers.
	-Allen