While it doesn't bother me much either way, I'm a little concerned about what the other subscribers might think. Also, there may be an issue if for-profit publications pick up the contents of this list routinely (not that they're likely to at present, but they might in future). If anybody objects to Chere copying their submissions to the ferret mailing list in her newsletter, please let us know. Does anyone think that consent should be obtained from the original author? I would think that there would be no problem provided that attribution is given, giving the name of the author, date, and mentioning the source. Something like: From Chere Mccoy, Jan 29, 1992 via the Ferret Mailing List In other publications I've been involved with, I've often inserted a copyright notice of the form: Copyright xxxx Chris Lewis (since there isn't a "Ferret Mailing List Inc"), all rights reserved. Permission is freely granted for excerpting articles from this digest provided that the author, date and source ("The Ferret Mailing List") are given, and that no profit is gained directly from the copying of such articles. The idea being that: a) the author gets credit b) the mailing list gets credit c) money isn't made directly off the sale of articles from the mailing list. (c) basically is intended to prevent someone from binding up the mailing list and making money off of it. Which has happened before with the USENET recipes newsgroup. However, such use as represented by forwarding articles to CompuServe or GEnie, or occasional articles in other publications would be okay. What do people think? [Posted in FML 0209]