From: oday@lobster.gsfc.nasa.gov  (Orin Day)
Subject: Re: Referendum on Jayhawk Postings
Reply-To: oday@lobster.gsfc.nasa.gov  (Orin Day)
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 21:26:43 GMT

In article <1992Nov7.210246.3056@news.tufts.edu> gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George  
W. Harris) writes:
> 	To address the matter that you brought up (that is, whether such 
> postings are appropriate), there is the matter of copyright.  These articles
> do appear to have been transcribed verbatim from publications, and to do so
> is normally considered a violation of copyright law, unless permission is 
> given to do so.  Whether you feel copyright has any moral force behind it
> is up to you, but you also might want to considered the bearing this may 
> have on the organization from which you post, and what their views on the
> subject are.

One thing you might want to follow up on, Mary, is to see if KU will
take their newspaper on-line through the Gopher facility (they do 
have an up and running gopher server there) through which I read
The Daily Texan, Minnesota Daily, and Daily Illini campus papers.

> 	As to the content of the articles themselves, well, they are by your
> admission of interest exclusively to fans of Jayhawk sports.  While such
> postings are within the purview of r.s.bb.c's charter, it might be more 
> appropriate to form a mailing list of people interested in theis material
> and distribute it in that forum.  I know that such mailing lists have been
> formed for the benefit of groups of like-minded fans in the past.

:)  Such as my Duke mailing list, George.  Mary, I've got over 100 people
on this list now, and enrollment is still growing.  Basically, I send
out bulletins as needed, when time permits, including excerpts from newspaper
articles, personal commentary, and items from other folks across the 
net.world.  It cuts down the Duke (or Dook) traffic on the net, and
allows people who don't get net.news anymore to find out what is going
on with Duke hoops. 

Excerpts might be nice in r.s.bb.c, or if they're only intended for the
expatriate Kansas crowd, you might consider taking them to a mailing list
so they don't have to sort through the other stuff - that's how some of
my Duke readers feel.

There are also mailing lists for Kentucky and Indiana, so don't be the
only Final Four team this year to be without one :)  

> And as to any resentment felt against Kansas for their high preseason
> ranking, well, no one gets to worked up about preseason rankings around here.
> If you have post-season success, however, watch out.  Just ask the UConn and
> Iowa and St. John's fans what they think of Duke (heh, heh).

Exactly.  Who's won an NCAA championship in the summer (in hoops)?

Anyway, Mary,post away, but we'd maybe like to hear from you instead
of just the newspaper.  I find r.s.bb.c a useful source of information,
but wouldn't enjoy it nearly as much if it read like USA Today instead of
being the wacky and wild non-boring net.personality-rich group it is. 
I don't I'd be excited about watching NFL Primetime tonight if it was
hosted by Dan Rather, just as I wouldn't hang out here if it wasn't
for the rich cast of characters that post here.

And anybody who follows college basketball wouldn't refer to Kansas
as a "little upstart college in the middle of a wheat field" (unless
they were posting to r.s.f.c from Nebraska)

Cheers

Orin

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