Re: [ccp4bb] Using the BB for file sharing

2008-07-16 Thread Jayashankar
Dear All, Scott has good point.And the requesting party should reply to these kind mails very quickly ,so as to avoid of receiving huge number of same paper from different persons,(such a basic sense is important to avoid of wasting others time.) thanks. (still am confused about how far or how

Re: [ccp4bb] Using the BB for file sharing

2008-07-16 Thread Eleanor Dodson
I vote for an inclusive BB - it is easy to delete the irrelevent (to you) messages, and nice to know there is a helpful community out there who are prepared to help.. Presumably copyright violations do not result from sharing with one request.. Eleanor Jayashankar wrote: Dear All,

Re: [ccp4bb] Using the BB for file sharing

2008-07-16 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Hi, (still am confused about how far or how much a commercial people(non academic) can access this BB) Most of the people I know in industry at least occasionally read this board. Not everyone posts of course, but that's nothing to do with your affiliation - not everyone from academia posts

[ccp4bb] Using the BB for file sharing

2008-07-15 Thread Martyn Winn
Dear All, There seems to be an increasing number of requests for articles on the BB. Can we assume that those supplying articles hold the necessary copyright permissions? Since the BB is visible and archived, I just want to be sure everything is nice and legal. regards Martyn --

Re: [ccp4bb] Using the BB for file sharing

2008-07-15 Thread Ed Pozharski
May I also suggest that the more traditional avenue - requesting the reprint from the corresponding author - is always tried first? I used to do this back in time when I was a poor russian grad student with zero access to full-text articles. Also handy if you collect stamps :) On Tue,

Re: [ccp4bb] Using the BB for file sharing

2008-07-15 Thread William G. Scott
It is impossible to know when someone has an anonymous user name and email address. I would suggest, minimally, that if someone asks us to send a paper, they need to sign their correspondence unambiguously (name and institution). Also, several requests in the span of three weeks from the