On 11 Sep 02  21:30:49, Thom Lacosta said the following to Bob Short:

TL> Not to diminish the importance of Fidonews, but I'm getting real curious no
TL> If Fidonews is copywritten by the editor, and the editor picks his/her 
TL> replacement, and the sysops don't have any say in who is the Fidonews Edito
TL> why even have Fidonews mentioned in Policy 4 at all?
 
TL> What control does Fidonet exercise over the editor to insure that the conte
TL> facilitates any of the above?

I believe the spirit (if not wording) infers that the /content/ within
a FidoNews issue is copywrited, not the medium itself.  :)

Bob

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