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ptsize="10" family="SANSSERIF" face="Arial" lang="1" size="2">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>
<br>
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>
<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
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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Well, Gilles, I'm glad it was a false alarm -- that's always the best
outcome in this type of situation. But I don't think you should have
called my response "brilliant". It's just a few little things I've
picked up through experience. If you want BRILLIANT ways to deal with
things like this, check out the "Copyright" section of the forums at
Webmasterworld.com -- a site I heartily recommend for anyone running a
site of his own. Those guys REALLY know how to deal with thieves! Also,
everything else having to do with the business.<br>
<br>
Aside to Olaf -- we're not talking about using sources (however this
particular case may have turned out). People use me as a source all the
time, and I'm always glad to see it. But outright plagiarism --
copy-and-paste stuff -- just isn't right. What do these guys imagine
they're doing? Adding to the world's knowledge? Can't be, because what
they post is already there. Making it more easily available? Given my
traffic and Google rankings, I doubt there's anything a two-bit thief
can do to improve its circulation. Expressing the creativity of their
souls? Puh-lease! It's theft, pure and simple, absolutely without value.<br>
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Quack, Don<br>
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