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Subject:Re: (Possibly OT) Can I quote you? From:"Martin Soderstrom" <scribbler1382 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 2 May 2002 13:49:42 -0400
> When posting to a discussion list, you are taking the chance that you
> will be quoted.
And in ways you may never have imagined. Recently I went back to a
newsgroup I hadn't participated in for several months. I was reading a post
and noticed my name on the screen. I thought, huh? On closer examination,
I realized that someone had taken a quote from one of my posts that was
almost a year old and was using it as his tagline. He was attributing it to
me, but he sure never asked me if it was okay. Life is weird.
(Note: I normally wouldn't have minded, but he copy and pasted the
quote....including a typo I made which now lives in perpetuity. <sigh>)
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