You wrote: 

On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ryan Mathews wrote:

Okay, I guess I'm still unclear on the concept.  I kind of figured 
you took all fics posted and stuck them on the remailer, like Zoner 
does with his archive.

Can't.  Violates copright laws.  (Yes, I did my homework.  Any 
submission you send here, no matter if you include a copyright notice 
or not, is automatically copryrighted to you.)

When you send it to the remailer submission address, you implicitly 
give me permission for unlimited distribution.

Okay.  But that makes me wonder why Zoner and people who post to 
r.a.a.creative have no problem with him archiving all their stuff 
without him requesting some sort of permission.  Would he be protected 
by the nature of the group, i.e. a moderated newsgroup is sort of like 
a magazine, and he's just storing back issues?

------RM