> This is from the Association of Professional Genealogists' (USA) list (< > APG-L@rootsweb.com>): > > > Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 15:40:00 -0400 > From: "Richard McCool" <mccool.13@osu.edu> > To: APG-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <000101c1f923$a4c8a8f0$6401a8c0@ramccool> > Subject: [APG] Stolen Artistic and Intellectual Property; Please Say SYS, not > Uncle > Dear Artists, Authors, Intellectuals, Researchers and Scientists, > > I am thinking about starting an ad hoc "State Your Sources" WWW > movement. I make no claims to this idea, should it not be original, > outside of having been plagiarized, and otherwise misused, too often. I > am not published, but hope to be. And hope as well that there will be a > place for me, and others like me, somewhere in this cacophonic Internet > universe. > > SYS will patrol the Internet 24/7, per your personal surfing, asking > pointedly of all persons publishing to the 'Net that they state clearly > and concisely from whom they have the information about which they [now] > post. The reply to such statements being, "Please state your sources." > This question to be posed in all its starkness and sincerity, by itself, > as often as is necessary. Reproduction and redundancy are, after all, at > the heart of all sciences. Art learns from it, and vice versa. > > The sign-off will be "Your SYS," telling all honest persons in the SYS > Movement, and their catchers-on, that "'We' are on it." > > Thank you for giving this your careful consideration--and hoping to see > my SYSters everywhere, > > Richard Alan McCool > No further comment. > Terence Heartily Agree! Carol Martin > ==== CoTipperary Mailing List ====