Subject: Re-use of material from TheForge

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 21:33:34 -0500 (EST)

I would like to raise a topic for discusion.  I have belonged to TheForge 
since the end of December.  I am a newsletter editor and let me tell you 
I feel like I have fallen into a goldmine.  There is a wonderful wealth 
of information here.  Anyone who has been an editor or has been with 
earshot of a current editor knows the trouble we have finding new and 
fresh material for our newsletters.  I was all set to just go ahead and 
compile and extract material from the various discusions which have been 
going on here in TheForge.  Then it occured to me, maybe I had better 
double check that such use is alright with those who originally posted. 

Is there anyone out there who has been posting data to this forum who 
would take umbrage at having their postings reprinted in chapter 
newsletters?  If this is a concern for some, should there be an 
understanding that any information that is NOT to be reprinted, should 
have a disclaimer attached at the beginning of those particular posts?

Am I making a mountain out of a molehill (I have been know to do this on 
occasion)?

My intention is to always give credit to both TheForge and to the person 
who posted the information.   Most newsletter  give permission to other 
blacksmithing newsletters to reprint articles as long as recognition is 
given to the originator.  Occasionally one runs into an article which has 
a copyright announcment and a request not to reprint. 

I have noticed that a number of other editors belong and participate,  
what are your thoughts along these lines?  

Albin Drzewianowski
Editor, BLACKSMITH GUILD OF CENTRAL MARYLAND
Westminster, MD

	"When all else fails, use a bigger hammer."

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From: Steve Smith <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 96 9:09:26 MST

Dear Albin,

I think all the other newsletter editors are already mining.
Fortunately, it is a renewable resource.

I don't see any large problems with using material from the forge in
your newsletter, as long as credit is given. Do keep trying for
additional submissions from other sources. Those of us who are on line
could get pretty bored with newsletters, otherwise.

--
Steve Smith
[email-masked]