JK>By erasing my name from the file and thereby anonymizing it, this
  >person has raped my good name as a programmer.
JK>This is my warning:
JK>Should this EVER happen again to any of my code I will not only stop
  >posting public domain code.  I will stop being helpful.  I will revoke
  >the right to use ANY of my copyrighted code which I have always
  >distributed freely.
JK>I am outraged.  The only thing a programmer who writes code and
  >releases it to the public domain has is his or her good name.
JK>Mine has been erased.
JK>Don't ever let me see that hapenning again.
  Jamshid (Quin) I can understand your outrage, a relative had a
drawing of his from a book he publishes appear in another commercial
publication that gave no credit to him and implied authorship.  He
found it accidentally.
  It was easy to locate the persons responsible but took considerable
effort to get any admission of fault.  The diagram was slightly altered
so they claimed it was coincedence though almost everything was
identical including minor imperfections.
  Frequenting the echos and usergroups you must have come across the
type of behavior that anonymity can generate.  The person who did the
deed would, unfortunately, probably be pleased at your annoyance.
  I read the faq that was posted by someone other than you in the Qb echo
that did give credit to you. (I recognized your style anyhow.)  You are
a valuable resource and it would be sad to lose you because of such
behaviour.
  I've seen several disputes where people were caught changing the names
of posters of specific messages to cause harm or taking credit for things
they didn't write.  The ease of access and freedom of this medium make
these things inevitable.  Warning the appropriate people and correcting
the hacking by making it publicly known, as you have, seems the only
solution for now.
  I think that there should be a way when illegality is suspected to get
the name of anonymous posters using a masterlist allowing no handles for
initial log on as Micro$oft net is doing.
Doug.
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