On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 17:37:24 GMT, Bry
wrote:



Don't bother... It will save you some embarrassment when you realise
that the site I linked to, www.gardenbanter.co.uk is in fact not my
blog as you suggested, but is actually the *official HTML viewer to
this newsgroup*. I have no control over what is posted there, it
simply mirrors all the posts sent by people such as you who use an
email reader to access the group. Again, I sit here in dismay
wondering how anyone could live to 51 with the attitude; shoot first
forget to ask questions later. It's suprising how many accusations
you can churn out a minute, are you just hoping one of them is going
to stick before your brash attitude entirely discredits you?

As I posted a few minutes ago, this is absolutely untrue.

Your website -- gardenbanter.co.uk -- has no association
with rec.gardens.edible and you are violating the copyright
of posters on this newsgroup by republishing their writings
elsewhere without their permission. It is also unethical,
in my opinion, as you are stealing the intellectual property
of others.

I suggest that anyone else who objects to this (I most
certainly do), send complaints to gardenbanter.co.uk's web
hosting service. Send your complaints to:

and

Explain to them that you had NOT given permission for this
illegal and intellectually dishonest taking of your writings
and republishing of them in another venue. Include copies
of your posts to this newsgroup, with full headers.

My post, expressly stating that I did not give permission
for the reuse of my writings appeared he

http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/showth...threadid=46848

(The whole thread is here -- or is here until someone takes
it down.)

Ask Ripe.net to take action to stop this. Be polite and
friendly in your note to Ripe.net - it's not their fault,
they're in all probability unaware of it.

You can also send posts to rec.gardens.edible stating that
you do not give permission to anyone else to take your
writings and publish them in another venue.

Since the process is automated, these posts will appear on
the gardenbanter.co.uk website and will reveal this practice
for what it is, as well as making the website owner look
pretty stupid.

This is the sort of thing that has all but killed Usenet
newsgroups and it's a terrible shame that people have abused
a once-wonderful resource that was free to all.

Pat Meadows
Copyright © 2003 Patricia Meadows
All Rights Reserved
No re-publication of this posting to any other venue will be
permitted.


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