On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 20:08:04 -0700 Hamilcar Barca > wrote:
>
> By releasing the article on Usenet, the author implicitly grants
> license for the quotation, duplication, reproduction, retransmission, and
> storage of copies of the article. That's the way Usenet works.

Yes, that is the way Usenet works. But "the way Usenet works"
does *not* in my understanding have the force of law.

In any case, I thought that Usenet netiquette recommended that
specific permission ought to be asked before __copying__ the
entire article to anyone/anywhere else.

mikus