On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:52 AM, comex <com...@gmail.com> wrote: >> That's not very nice-- e clearly was unaware of the situation. > > I don't think it's unreasonable to expect officers to read the rules. > Of course, if e was unaware because the SLR wasn't defining "publish" > at the time that's probably grounds for NOT GUILTY.
It's not inherently and absolutely obvious that publishing a reasonable reference to a text does not suffice for publishing the text (it doesn't suffice, and the Rules say that, I'm just pointing out that it's not absolutely and immediately obvious). -Goethe