On Thursday, January 3, 2002, at 12:22 PM, Sunder wrote:

Um, what's all this crap about?

You want to publish a newspaper, do so. There's no special requirement for anyone to publish papers. All you have to do is simply print and distribute. You might need to comply with some post office regs about printing ownership info.

Nope. The courts have upheld the right under the First to publish untraceably. (I think it was Talley, but I might be misremembering--someone will know the cite offhand.) To be sure, setting up newspaper stands in public places will trigger various business, rental, tax, etc. rules. But publishing a broadsheet or a newsletter or even a 300-page newspaper qua a _publication_ needs no permission slip or "ownership info." There are those in local governments who claim it does, but they are wrong. Their killing is left as an exercise for the marksmen here. As to the space cadet idea that space should be bought in newspapers so that CJ or Toto or Jimbell or Choate or Vulis or Detweiler or mattd or any of our other mental cases, knock yourself out. I wouldn't contribute a microcent. --Tim May --Tim May "Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice."--Barry Goldwater