On 16 Nov 2003, Derek posted the following to rec.food.drink.tea:

> Actually, anything posted to this group is copyright of the
> original poster - providing said poster either created the post
> or had the right to post it.

A clarification (I hit send a bit too quickly).

Also, issues of prior art would apply. Something posted with the
belief that it was an original idea does not necessarily mean that it
is such and therefore copyrighted.

--
Derek

None of us is as dumb as all of us.