Florian Brucker wrote:
> 
> Full author information and copyright notices would of course be
> included in the list,

This is not the question - you are either allowed to do so or not (and i 
think you are not).

Copyright law allows you to cite from others' copyrighted material but i 
doubt any interpretation of this says you are allowed to cite images.

> As an alternative, I could leave out the thumbnails, and post only the
> links, but that somehow destroys the idea of the whole thing.

This would be undoubtly OK from the legal standpoint.

A solution would be a feature add-on for the newsserver web interface 
with the possibility to pass a list of posting references and it returns 
a page with those like

http://news.povray.org/digest/images/

;-)

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/

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