From: gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.college
Subject: Re: Referendum on Jayhawk Postings
Date: 7 Nov 92 21:02:46 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

In article <1992Nov7.011445.44493@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> maryb@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>In article <1992Nov5.183420.13680@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, kbowers@esrc1.uucp 
>(Ken Bowers) writes:
>
>And I've deleted everything except the subject lines:
>
>>>Subject: Jayhawk Post #10 (Pollard commits)
>>>
>>>Subject: Jayhawk Post #11 (Rayford & Pearson)
>>>
>>>Subject: Jayhawk Post #9 (Spooks and Hoops)
>>> 
>> Hoping for a ruling from the r.s.b.c authorities,
>> 
>> Ken Bowers 
>
>I post these articles for those out there in net.land who are KU fans.  I
>started this because KU finally did something good this season in football,
>and I continued it into basketball because of all the positive response I got. 
>I cannot believe that you are reading these postings accidentally, because 
>they are clearly marked.  If you don't care for the subject matter, 
>DON'T READ THEM.
>
>But I would be interested on hearing a ruling from "the r.s.b.c. authorities."
>I can stop posting just the same way I started.
>
>Are you sure this isn't motivated by the fact that Kansas, a little upstart
>college in the middle of a wheat field "where the buffalo roam" is one of the
>top-ranked teams in the preseason polls?
>
>Please, make your statement.  Ken asked you.  I ask you.

	Well, I think you are misinterpreting Ken's posting, the body of which
I have conveniently deleted.  He wasn't suggesting that your postings were in-
appropriate, but rather that the act of posting such voluminous articles in and
of intself constituted woofing.  As you know if you've ever read this newsgroup
at all, woofing brings its own punishments.

	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.

	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.

	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).

>Kansas Mary
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