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I write to respond to some of the comments made by Mark Thompson.

>I don't see why we'd need anyone's permission to post material we wrote
ourselves.

My thinking was that such publication, if done without permission, could
possibly lead to disqualification from the 84 Spaces Contest.

>Nor would posting it on Yahoo compromise our right to our work,
since Yahoo can't legally claim proprietary rights over material that
someone else composed.

My concern with the rules of Yahoo groups is that those rules, in the
Terms of Service document, state that posting grants an intellectual
property rights license to Yahoo.  The wording is complicated.  In the
event of my wishing to license some intellectual property rights of
something which I have invented to a manufacturer or to a magazine, I do
not wish to have the complication of licences to Yahoo being part of the
equation, so I will not post my ideas to a Yahoo group.

I am, however, entirely willing to post my entries in this forum if the
owners of the www.chessvariants.com website, who are holding the contest,
agree that all entrants may post their entries in this forum.

However, that is my own view.  It is entirely possible that some entrants
might feel that they do not wish to post their entry or entries anywhere
prior to their entry or entries being published by the organizer of the
competition.  Indeed, some of them might feel that such prior publication
of other entries would be unfair.  This is, I suggest, not a matter of a
majority of entrants deciding the issue, for even if a majority agree to
something I feel that it should not be done if that agreement would
violate the rights under the rules of the contest of even one person.