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  1. Xref: sparky alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk:4028 ucb.english:90 talk.environment:5755 comp.org.eff.talk:9240
  2. Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,ucb.org.csua,ucb.org.ocf,ucb.english,talk.environment,comp.org.eff.talk
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost!jmc
  4. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  5. Subject: Re: [ucb.org.csua, et al.]  Re: The Schedule of Classes
  6. In-Reply-To: nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu's message of 26 Jan 1993 00:56:17 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <JMC.93Jan25201400@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  8. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  9. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  10. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  11. References: <C1Bsy5.E91@cs.uiuc.edu> <C1F4Bs.Hxp@ms.uky.edu>
  12.     <1k227h$dsb@agate.berkeley.edu>
  13. Distribution: inet
  14. Date: 25 Jan 93 20:14:00
  15. Lines: 10
  16.  
  17. If the phone book database is copyrighted, the owner can go after whoever
  18. uses it without permission except for what is legally "fair use".  Using
  19. it for a mass mailing would not count as "fair use".
  20.  
  21. Sysadmins often suffer from pomposity, as seems to be the case here.
  22. --
  23. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
  24. *
  25. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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