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From: H-Man on 5 Aug 2010 13:11
On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 22:10:47 +0000 (UTC), Bear Bottoms wrote:

> H-Man <Spam(a)bites.fs> wrote in
> news:i3buu9$3ps$1(a)news.eternal-september.org:
>
>> On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 23:45:33 +0000 (UTC), Bear Bottoms wrote:
>>
>>> Mike Easter <MikeE(a)ster.invalid> wrote in
>>> news:8brjpcFnrjU1(a)mid.individual.net:
>>>
>>>> Bear Bottoms wrote:
>>>>> Ever wish you could email files to your Dropbox? Yeah, me too. So I
>>>>> wrote an application to do just that!
>>>>
>>>> When you compose your messages like that, it makes it appear that
>>>> the words above are your own.
>>>>
>>>> If you are going to post a link and enhance the URL with information
>>>> pasted from the site, you should do it in such a way that it isn't
>>>> ambiguous about what you are saying (including if you aren't saying
>>>> anything of your own in the message) as opposed to what is being
>>>> pasted from the site's page which has been created by the
>>>> site's/page's developer.
>>>>
>>>> Here is how I do it, and I have been criticized for not doing enough
>>>> to indicate what I've pasted and what is mine.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://sendtodropbox.com/about Send to Dropbox is a personal project
>>>> by Ralph Holzmann. Ralph spends most of his time doing front end
>>>> development for his employer, GroupCard.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Most of the times I do, sometimes I don't. It is information. I don't
>>> care if you think it is from me or them. I'm not trying to prove
>>> anything.
>>
>> Well to be fair to others, quoting others dialog without indicating it
>> is a quote is at best plagiarism. In this case reading your post
>> indicates you are responsible for authoring this software. This is
>> hugely unfair to the author and is misleading to anyone who does not
>> understand your posting style. This is why people are commenting on
>> this.
>>
>
> I doubt it, the link takes you to the same text.

Make an effort, you're not even trying.

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HK
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