Trevor Boicey wrote:
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> Aron Travis wrote:
> >
> > Hey, the internet is a free for all
>
> No, not true. The internet is certainly not a free for all..
>
> A similar but accurate statement would be that the internet
> polices itself. The netizens generally know what's right and
> will pool efforts to keep it that way..
Yes, I agree. But the internet is, for lack of better words, more 'open
minded', than other media forums. Which means to me, posting a list
of humorous tool definitions, that I recieved from another list, that
had other list members additions, is way too trivial of an issue to
get the attention of the netizen police. If I were posting cookie
recipies, racist slang, bawdy humor, etc, I can see it, but
talking about how not crediting Road and Track is an 'actionable offense'
is just absurd.
> When somebody is telling you that what you are doing is wrong,
> whether it's spamming, or posting to the wrong list, or stealing
> quotes from Road and Track, that is the internet policing itself..
No, I think that that was not the internet policing itself, I think
that was one person, with that persons opinions. Now if everybody on the
MG list says what I did was wrong.......
Lighten up, I didn't steal from Road and Track. Do you think I'm sitting
down at the computer with an issue of R&T in my lap, copying articles to
make myself more popular, or something? That is just absurd. Do I
have to check my sources before I post anything from another list?
Should I email people that forward emails "Did you really write this,
or did you plagerize it?"
Sure, I can see if I copied a David Vizard book verbatim, and said
'Hey everybody, here's MY new book on tuning Midget engines", that
that would be very wrong. But posting jokes without finding the
origional source(s) just inhibits comunication.
I think that this disscusion can be summed up with- you care, I don't.
And you can quote me on that.
-Aron-
"in a frenzy"
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