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Adrienne Deangelis <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Sat, 24 Apr 1999 13:27:46 -0400
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Hello Jim Lyons--
        Thank you for your full reply!  To answer your questions as
briefly as possible, I don't know this person, there is no question that
this person deliberately and without my knowledge or permission copied
from my pages and pasted onto his/her pages large parts from some of my
Web sites.  I should add that from time to time I get messages from people
otherwise unknown to me asking if they can download parts of my Web sites
and add them to their own.  I've also been asked if I would just GIVE them
parts of my Web sites so that they can run them and pass them off as their
own.  Oddly enough, I always refuse.
        Of course I have no way of knowing how many people may be just
taking all or part of my sites, as this person has.  I periodically search
for other sites such as my own, but many pages are not indexed, plus
those academics who use firewalls can copy others' work and the original
authors would never know.  This, IMHO, is one very big reason for
advocating total visibility for all academic/museum sites (with certain
logical exceptions).
        Actually, I've posted this notice periodically on different
listservs in the so far vain hope that this person will realize that
his/her activities have been spotted and will then take down his/her
copies of my work.  I repeat that this person is a tenured academic, a
person evidently with many years' teaching experience who should by this
time be well-acquainted with the basic precepts of academic honesty.  I am
an adjunct looking for a position and I am rather afraid that this copying
will be spotted by someone who has my application in hand and who will
assume that I am the culprit.
        I certainly have no intention of suing this person--which,
considering our respective employment situations would harm me far more
than him/her--but if some sort of solution is not reached immediately I
will certainly consider writing messages to various listservs naming the
sites and the professor.

        Adrienne DeAngelis

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