At the risk of appearing pedantic, the dictionary definition of plagiarize (using The American Heritage Dictionary, 1993 Houghton Mifflin) is: 1. To use or pass off as one's own (the ideas or writings of another). 2. To appropriate for use as one's own passages or ideas from another. --intr. To plagiarize the ideas or words of another. There is nothing more destructive to research and the free exchange of information than this despicable behavior on the part of Ms. Robbin's thief. Already, Ms. Robbins has stated that she will not be posting to GenForum "for awhile" and I, for one, find that to be a sad state of affairs for everyone of us. Not meaning to flame anyone, using a "sentence or two here and there",* without proper attribution and permission is not the right thing to do and is not acceptable. Richard > -----Original Message----- > From: GenOdyssey [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 11:43 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Infringement & plagiarism from GenForum > > > I looked at the page on the URL you posted, but am not seeing why this > would be an example of copyright infringement and plagarism. Perhaps I > missed something... or I didn't read the page the way you > intended it to be > read from the occurrences you mention? Perhaps there were whole > blocks of > text used instead of only facts or a *sentence or two here and there?