On 29 Nov 2006, Copy Right < Þ @ Þ > wrote:
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>Instead of copying the lot off the website why not just post the link
>and a few words of what it's about - surely that's enough?[/color]

Where copyright of a "magazine" item is involved a precis of the item
and a web link might be enough. However, for those who have no easy
access to a browser, but read the newsgroup, or for those who later
happen to read the newsgroup, and the web link fails (eg because of
a reorganisation of all pages on the website, perhaps 5 years down
the line) then having the article posted is a reasonable thing. If
you don't want to download it, then your newsreader might be able to
simply not download any post of 50+ lines, for example. This post,
at well under 100 lines, is far from excessive, IMO, and whilst in
some cases one would like the web link to be able to confirm that
something posted is as is seen on the website, I for one, knowing
that what Sunil posts is nearly always 100% correct, would prefer
to be able to read the whole thing here (I didn't, but I've set my
newsreader to keep anything posted by Sunil anyway, so it will be
held on my HD for years, with posts from Phil Henry and others)
rather than have to go off to some website (some of which 'force'
their own 'musical' output on visitors) to get the full story.