This is just my personal opinion, but since the idea of the theme of “Aircraft Carriers” was thought up by Mitchell Holman and he gathered all the photos, cleaned them up and then posted them on alt.binaries.pictures.aviation for your enjoyment, the least you could do is give the guy some credit. Public domain or not, it was Mitchell who made these images available.
Whilst it might seem harmless to harvest images from all over the web to re-post, the people who make their collections of original photographs available this way may become reluctant to do so if the feel that their generosity is being overlooked. That particular newsgroup isn’t anywhere near as busy as it used to be, but we still get some wonderful old photos posted – I hope that doesn’t stop.
Rob
I couldn’t agree more, Robbo, and I always do give credit to websites and owners of photos I repost (that are not copyright of course).
The site I borrowed these pics from is http://alt.binaries.pictures.aviation.xusenet.com/ and they have a superb collection of images there.
Cheers
TNZ
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