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Message no. 1
From: Rat winterhawk@*********.net
Subject: Geocities website owners: read this!
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:38:46 -0700
This might be old news, but it was new to me when I spotted
it on a newsgroup I was cruising through. Potentially chilling
possibilities for anyone who has a website on Geocities:

http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20472.html


(Gist of story in case link doesn't work: now that Yahoo
has gobbled up Geocities, they're claiming they own all
Web pages, articles, and images on member sites and have
irrevocable rights to them for all time.)

Brr...

--Rat

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Message no. 2
From: Snake Eyes snake.eyes@********.att.net
Subject: Geocities website owners: read this!
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 21:04:36 -0700
At 08:38 PM 6/29/99 -0700, Rat wrote:

>This might be old news, but it was new to me when I spotted
>it on a newsgroup I was cruising through. Potentially chilling
>possibilities for anyone who has a website on Geocities:
>
>http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20472.html
>
>
>(Gist of story in case link doesn't work: now that Yahoo
>has gobbled up Geocities, they're claiming they own all
>Web pages, articles, and images on member sites and have
>irrevocable rights to them for all time.)

Guess the honeymoon is finally over.

~ Snake Eyes
Message no. 3
From: Hunter griffinhq@****.com
Subject: Geocities website owners: read this!
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 00:20:37 -0400
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:38:46 -0700 Rat <winterhawk@*********.net> writes:
>This might be old news, but it was new to me when I spotted
>it on a newsgroup I was cruising through. Potentially chilling
>possibilities for anyone who has a website on Geocities:
>
>http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20472.html
>
Yep, time to move the old homepage.

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Message no. 4
From: A Halliwell u5a77@***.keele.ac.uk
Subject: Geocities website owners: read this!
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:20:55 +0100 (BST)
|(Gist of story in case link doesn't work: now that Yahoo
|has gobbled up Geocities, they're claiming they own all
|Web pages, articles, and images on member sites and have
|irrevocable rights to them for all time.)

Which is a total load of fetid dingos kidneys.
They have no right to anything hosted Geocities, as NO-ONE has signed
anything over to them.

I most certainly haven't... It's probably just FUD spread around by one of
their competitors.


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