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OT: Netiquette (was Re: New Product preview at the Ethermusicfestival)



Oh, sorry.  The Subject should have been marked as OT.  :P

At 10:26 AM +0900 5/3/08, Mech wrote:
>At 10:23 PM +0200 5/2/08, Per Boysen wrote:
>>  > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:45 PM,  <kkissinger@kevinkissinger.com> 
>wrote:
>>>   >
>>>   >  I look forward to hearing the "buzz" about this product among 
>>>the looping
>>>   > community as well as the theremin community (which includes 
>>>many guitarists
>>  >  > and loopers).
>>
>>http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2008/05/moog-guitar-review-spotted.html
>
>WTF?!?
>
>Does anybody else think this looks like really, really bad netiquette?
>
>First of all, there's the whole issue of snarfing posts from an 
>email list and randomly re-posting them all over the Internet.  That 
>point is always debatable.
>
>But what *really* steams me is that this Cikara person has 
>completely stripped Kevin Kissinger's name and contact information 
>off his own post.  Not only does that deprive Kevin of credit for 
>his own words, but it makes it look as if those words were instead 
>written by the person that stole the post.
>
>Now maybe there was a back-end conversation had between Kevin and 
>the Matrixsynth blogger.  But if there were no permission explicitly 
>given, this appears to be horrible net manners!
>
>       --m.
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