THANKS JOAN!!! THAT seems to be the point that I'm not getting across! I have NO problem with people having differing standards of proof, but I was completely uncomfortable even calling his standards proof!! I would FAR rather have him paraphrase to his hearts content, and claim the information as his own, than to have my diligently proven information appear as a collaboration with him! The bottom line is, he did NOT have the right to publish my e-mails, he knows that, and they are now gone....thanks in no small part to all the help I received from this list!! THANKS AGAIN!! Joan In a message dated 7/21/2006 9:50:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, JYoung6180@aol.com writes: I don't understand why, if he's using data you gathered, you wouldn't want it attributed to you. I wouldn't want more than one or two of my emails, public or private, posted verbatim without my permission at any one place, but I would want my efforts acknowledged. Debbie- The reason Joan doesn't want her name attached to it is that it isn't what she'd have wanted listed as being HER work. There is no problem with the person paraphrasing her words and taking the public domain info from her research but allowing him to quote her verbatim and use her copyrighted private content is not what she wants and I understand that completely. It is actually worse to be quoted at length and have content attributed to you that you don't want online, than for someone else to take their own responsibility for it. Joan will now be able to prepare hew OWN files in the manner she wants them displayed and post them online herself under her name. Joan