Head of S.F.'s Library Resigns Under Pressure (fwd) -Reply

o-tech at o-tech.com o-tech at o-tech.com
Thu Jan 23 08:04:20 EST 1997


Karen makes a compelling point about forwarding news.  See
http://www.benedict.com/enewsfax.htm#enews
for verification.

Eva Holtsmark

KAREN SCHNEIDER wrote:
> 
> fyi, folks, before this message gets forwarded all over planet
> earth... while I'm not sorry to see Dowlin go, forwarding entire
> articles from SFGate is not allowed.  I checked, by the way,
> before making that comment; they wrote back and said, "You
> cannot copy or otherwise incorporate one of our stories without
> permission. "  That's pretty clear.  I wouldn't bring this up on the
> list (I addressed it in private with forwarder 1 and forwarder 2)
> but I have now seen a web4lib post crawl to Autocat, and who
> knows where it will go next.  If it has permissions, they should be
> so stated.  We're librarians, y'know?


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