Tony Sidaway (minorityreport(a)bluebottle.com) [050507 09:54]:
David Gerard said:
> slimvirgin(a)gmail.com (slimvirgin(a)gmail.com) [050507 09:33]:
>> The anonymous posters on Usenet are not
published authors just because
>> they post to Usenet. So yes, any editor who wanted to delete material
>> sourced to Usenet would be well within their rights - except where
>> it's being used as a primary source about itself.
> Although in practice, this would be disruption to
make a point. Why are
> you hardly being agreed with?
I happen to find slimvirgin's argument impossible
to answer. As a
secondary source, Usenet will never, ever be even remotely citable on the
subject of the world outside Usenet. I would not regard deletion of
Usenet-sourced material as disruption to make a point.
I found it very useful for [[The Eye of Argon]], for instance.
- d.