Gord Hannah (1:17/23.1) wrote to Steven Horn at 06:49 on 22 Oct 2006:

SH> Interesting.  What was the explanation?

 GH> Michiel van der Vlist did one of his assinine stunts, this is a
 GH> quote: 

 GH> "(c) 2006, Michiel van der Vlist. All rights reserved. Permission
 GH> granted to distribute by means of the FidoNews echomail conference
 GH> and the FidoNews file echo only."

As much as I think Vlist is a jerk, why should he not have been able to
claim copyright in his article?  He wrote it, did he not?

 GH> Which of course did what it was designed to do cause a furor.  Some
 GH> people do not understand that copywrite means that the article or
 GH> painting, etc cannot be redone and claimed as ones own, as that is
 GH> plagiarism.  Mind you you may know more about that than I do.

There's a bit more to it than that but where was the furore?  I saw nothing
until I got Ward's netmail.

 GH> The worse offenders in these flame fests are in no particular
 GH> order: Roy Witt, Ward Dossche, Michiel van der Vlist, Shannon
 GH> Talley, Frank Scheidt, and a few others, for adults (I assume they
 GH> are adults) it is actually very disgusting behaviour.

I'm a bit surprised about Shannon being there and the name Frank Scheidt
means nothing to me.  But are they worse than Bob "the germ"
Germer, Bob Hirschfeld or Marcel Bendshadler were and each of those were
moderators.

 GH> One cannot have an argument with one participant.

But why does one have to argue.  Can't one simply discuss?

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven.horn{at}northwestel.net)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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