[meteorite-list] NEW Eucrite, absolutely the strangestever seen!

From: David Weir <dgweir_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:32 2004
Message-ID: <3F929F71.C94D672A_at_earthlink.net>

Hey Walter,

I guess it comes with the territory. I just don't think these people
have any idea that I have spent many thousands of hours over the past
decade, literally, reading published papers, re-reading, composing what
I have learned, and maintaining this information in a current format as
further research warrants. I wouldn't have the time or inclination to
help anyone else write a website since mine is primarily for my own
information and reference - my notebook as it were. I just feel sorry
for the lazy SOBs that use my website without ever learning anything
about the content on their own. What's up with that? I did use to cheat
sometimes on book reports in grade school so I could get a good grade,
but what is the motivation to plagiarize a website I wonder. Can they
take any pride in that?

I plan to continue to update my webpages on a regular basis from the
most current information so I hope those people who use my texts are
aware that their information will likely become outdated in the very
near future. Last night I updated my Krymka, Inman, and Renazzo pages
based on new research published in the latest MAPS by E. Quirico et al.
I provided references. We owe our thanks to those researchers for
allowing us to learn about the rocks that we love to collect.

David

Walter Branch wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> Man, you must be the most plagiarized meteoritical person on the net. Just
> think, there are probably more pages that have yet to be caught.
>
> Maybe you should offer yourself as a consultant to people/organizations whom
> you discover have copied your work, for a fee of course.
>
> -Walter
> ------------------------------------------
> www.branchmeteorites.com
> Walter Branch, Ph.D.
> Branch Meteorites
> PO Box 60492
> Savannah, GA 31420
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Weir" <dgweir_at_earthlink.net>
> To: "Philip R. Burns" <pib_at_pibburns.com>
> Cc: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 7:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NEW Eucrite, absolutely the strangestever
> seen!
>
> > Hello Philip,
> >
> > I went to the link you provided and to my surprise found that by
> > clicking on any of the links on that page - cumulate, noncumulate,
> > polymict - you get a page with text that I wrote which makes up the text
> > on my webpage for Millbillillie. The "author" simply rearranged the
> > order of the paragraphs but copied the entire wording exactly. I also
> > explored this site a little and sure enough there is ample use of my
> > texts throughout this site. You would think that a site for NASA could
> > do original work wouldn't you, or is this site really NASA related at
> > all? Maybe our government doesn't understand its own copyright laws! Oh
> > well, I guess I should be honored as I should have been the other three
> > times my site was ripped off.
> >
> > I will contact the legal department at Lycos through their abuse
> > reporting page to report copyright infringement as provided for by the
> > Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
> >
> > David
> > meteoritestudies.com
> >
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Received on Sun 19 Oct 2003 10:28:01 AM PDT