Posted by michael on January 17, 2001, at 19:36:44
In reply to Re: We're being used as guinea pigs?? » Greg, posted by Cam W. on January 17, 2001, at 16:58:48
I accidentally posted this to the other site before I read dr bob's direction to send further posts here. So I'm posting it here now, sorry for the mix-up.
I'm with Scott, everybody take a deep breath... As far as the previous comments in the thread, just a couple quick thoughts/my 2 cents' worth:
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> First, it seems to me that the postings sent here are about as public as it gets. It's the internet. Anyone in the entire world can read this.
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> Second, this is nonetheless a fairly anonymous medium, unless you choose to really identify yourself. If you feel that you've compromised your anonymity (by choice or otherwise) I would hope you wouldn't post anything that you wouldn't want printed in a newspaper with your name attached to it. I don't mean to be insensitive, but that would just seem to be common sense.
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> Finally, as for the following line of argument:
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> "...unless *I*, as the AUTHOR of my material, CHOOSE to give permission for my words to be used elsewhere, they can not be..."
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> I'm not an attorney, but it seems to me that we have all choosen to grant that permission to Dr. Bob... As has been noted by others earlier in this thread, it is posted at the top of the page: "Submitting a message gives me permission to use it as I wish. Please be civil. "
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> In other words, if you submit a post, you implicitly grant Dr. Bob permission to use it.
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> Once again, I'm not an attorney, but it seems to me that if one agrees to something w/o having read it, that is your choice, & your responsibility. You can't hold someone else responsible for your actions/choices (or lack thereof).
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> I hope I haven't offended anyone, and sincerely, I appologize if I have. It just seems pretty straight forward to me.
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> One more thought - I would guess that Dr. Bob gets a lot more work than he gets benefit (or money, etc.) from running this site. Any benefit he does get is surely dwarfed by the benefits that we get from this site. It was surely missed while it was down, and I hope it's around for a long time to come. michael
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