From: Jeff Lyon <jefflyon@m...>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 08:08:50 -0500
Subject: Re: Near space maps
> At 07:25 PM 9/17/98 -0400, Nyrath wrote: Which, IIRC, included a couple of "ringers" in case anyone tried to... uh... annex... their data for their own commercial use. It would be pretty easy to prove in court that the Gliess catalog does not include "Bob's Star" (or whatever it was) at coordinates xxx, yyy, zzz. <g>
From: Nyrath the nearly wise <nyrath@c...>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:19:01 -0400
Subject: Re: Near space maps
> Jeff Lyon wrote:
Yes, I mentioned this in my web site. This was mentioned in a Fred Saberhagen
Bezerker short story ("the Destruction of Ankor Efelion"?) It turns out that
makers of dictionaries and encyclopedias have the same problem. What if some
unscrupulous individual copies your work and publishes it? How do you prove
they stole it? After all, a dictionary is a dictionary?
So you put ringers in your work. And catch the
crooks red-handed.