Having a 'code' is opening the flood gates for complaints and birth of a copy-and-paste sub-group!
This is a Goa-centric discussion and news/issue/opinion (aka bitching) exchange. In my experience of exchanging e-mails addresses with Goichis is invariably opening your mail box for endless 'cheezy joke' e-mails. Imagine, you meet 10 people and trust me, on an average 10 jokes each a week and a God-related cheesy picture or two, and from the Goichi Dubai ex-pat, usually a few boyish s^x joke...aye........now, do the math. And then they call you on the weekend asking you what you thought of 'that joke'. Ya right, they think you are rude when you diplomatically suggest they should get a life. Same deal with the cut and paste gang......plagiarism? Big word for the mind-less time-pass on the internet. You may call this a craft, granted. There is an explanation/internet term for this (am unable to recollect)...There are those who are tired of this; too bad, we lost an interesting and major Goan voice in Clinton Vaz... Goa news, even hear say or an aunty update, simply welcome, welcome; or if the Chief Minister accidentally fell into the swift and swollen Zuari on his way to Ponji, by all means, let the world know.....cut and paste, throw us a link, a picture or ten.... My question is are we soo lazy that we are unable to type in a few words to do research on a topic of interest? I think we can do without the cut-and-paste posts. I think GoaNet is everyone's to make interesting, informative and G-O(a)riginal! ederick Noronha <fredericknoro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20 July 2010 20:19, Eddie Fernandes <eddie.fernan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 1. Reproducing the whole text of the article without quoting the source, >> /date/author's name/url. It gives the impression that the person forwarding >> the article has written it and this could be a breach of copyright and/or >> plagiarism. > > Agreed. Even reproducing part of the text without quoting source is > bad karma. (I too have occasionally done this out of oversight or in > haste, and then regretted doing so.) > >> 2. Providing only the url without the title or subject or comment is not >> helpful. > > Right. People are not mind-readers. > >> I would like to suggest that members consider submitting a short summary >> with author's name, title/date of publication and url of the article. > > It's a trade off. If the article is of medium-size, and Goa-related, > and nobody is going to complain of copyright violation, then it might > be better posting the whole article. > > If it was written by the poster, and counting hits don't matter, then > too I would prefer reading it in my email, rather than having to visit > one additional site. > >> Readers will then need to visit the publisher's website which in turn could >> bring possible benefits to the author. The publisher may even be encouraged >> to commission more Goa-related articles if the web stats reveal such >> interest. > > Possible. But keep in mind that Goan readership is the proverbial drop > in the global ocean :-) So far, nobody has asked me to write more > because of additional hits! FN >