In article <rr7gpv8kdumo8dlbakukprpchs99s7obdb@news.rcn.com >,
not.deliverable+USENET@appropriate-tech.net says...

> On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 03:45:44 GMT, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "-=ô;ö=-"
> <Not.Telling@nowhere.com> wrote:
> >
> > Reprinted from http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16985
> >
> [snip]
>
> I guess you didn't notice this part:
>
> --> © 2003 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.
> --> Reproduction by Syndication Service only.
>

But what about this, part of a much longer statement?

> While the full text of many articles can be read on our public website,
> a great deal of our content resides in our members-only, password-
> protected area. And only AlterNet Syndication members may reprint our
> stories. If you'd like to re-print an article without becoming a member,
> please contact us.

Without wishing to take sides, and you're *morally* correct no doubt, I
find this ambiguous. Reprint, to me, seems to imply publishing hard
copy, not an electronic posting repeating something already available to
the general public via the same medium. Equally 'our stories' might be
taken to mean those available in their password protected area.

But posting the URL would have been enough to make the point.

Cheers,

Roy