RE: (Possibly OT) Can I quote you?

Subject: RE: (Possibly OT) Can I quote you?
From: "Earl Cooley" <shiva -at- io -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 14:36:05 -0500


Martin Soderstrom wrote:
> > 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>)

Congratulations! That is worth 1.5 egoboo points, and you
are now considered an Immortal. heh.

--
e=sc^3 (shiva -at- io -dot- com) Earl Cooley III


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