<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="1">Well I might have overrreacted, ...<BR>
I had totally forgotten that Per Starback's website were the first to mention Old Scotty as Scrooge's father (it's even this page about Bark's duck family tree which gave me the idea of starting my own duck tree!)<BR>
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I'm a bit ashamed of the way I reacted, but I'll add that it was very late and I was suffering from food intoxication and fever!! <BR>
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Moreover, I contacted this guy and he answered me that in the full version he mentionned all his sources (which I'm not even a part of, btw)...<BR>
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A french proverb says you have to turn 7 times your toungue in your mouth before speaking, I guess you also have to turn your finger 7 times around your mouse before sending an unuseful message to hundreds of people :-)<BR>
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I'd also say that I often send messages that may not be appropriate to mailing list, but I only realise it after : I only read the archives, not the messages themselves, so I don't realise that these messages are actually destinated to be automatically read by the members, who can't choose... It makes me see dcml more as a forum, which it's not...<BR>
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But well, it's not always negative, as we just had a brillant lesson of how to deal with plagiarism by Donald D. Markstein (thanks, Don!)<BR>
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Gilles<BR>
(btw I still don't know how to change my name from <BR>
Goofy313g at aol.com to Gilles, should I create a new identity?)<BR>
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