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At the end

July 26, 2000 by Michael Boyle

of this article, the writer states that whether adding a hyperlink to a Usenet post archived by Deja consitutes a change to the text is a grey area. Huh? It’s clear that it does change the text, no? I’m glad I don’t bother with Usenet any more – I certainly wouldn’t want links to be added to my posts by a company who just scarfs up others’ posts and then uses them to drive traffic to the shopping part of their site.

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