On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, John R Levine wrote:
> > I asked about 'netiquette' and tried to leave aside the question of
> > whether it was *LEGAL* to forward a message on to other forums....
>
> It's hard to see how it could be illegal unless your intention was to defame
> or harass, e.g., taking a message from someone else and reposting it in 100
since copyright remains with the author, whether it's legal to repost or
not comes down to whether or not reposting falls under either an implied
license or fair use - something that hasn't (to my knowledge) been
estalished in either statutory or case law
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