On Sat, 7 May 2005, Deathphoenix wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
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.
I also found it useful regarding a conversation between Andrew S.
Tanenbaum and some guy named Linus Torvalds. For instance, under
[[flaming]], which would you prefer?
1. For example, the Usenet discussion between Andrew S. Tanenbaum and
Linus Torvalds on microkernel versus monolithic kernel operating system
design has been described as a famous "flame war".
2. For example, the Usenet discussion between a computer science
professor and a software developer on microkernel versus monolithic
kernel operating system design has been described as a famous "flame war".
This conversation has been reprinted many times, most notably in the
O'Reilly book _Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution_.
Reference to specific posts at Google are not necessary.
Geoff