>> This post is Intellectual Property, if you've made it available
>> for viewing on a website, you must remove it immediately.
>
>Referring to Usenet posts as 'Intellectual Property' made me laugh even
>louder...

Not only that, but the statement is completely false. First, by publishing on
USEnet, you've implicitly granted general permission for reproduction,
archiving, echoing, or mirroring, as demonstrated by Google Groups, among
numerous others. Secondly, USEnet is itself an unrestricted network of servers
which copy and share content, using nntp instead of http. And third, there is no
compulsion to "remove" anything which may have been published under the doctrine
of fair use from a Web site.

-- Larry (Yeah, I do work in actual IP for the US government)