Article 11455 of alt.sex.cthulhu: From: bs904@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Andrew Nellis) Newsgroups: alt.sex.cthulhu Subject: POD: CFrost, please STOP. Date: 1 Feb 1997 08:08:58 GMT Look, when you took my story, gutted it, added some unbearably bad, illiterate text that turned it into a mindless porno and reposted it to alt.sex.cthulhu as an "improvement" I let it go. I figured it would do more harm to call attention to it. But it has now come to my attention that you are CROSS-POSTING this abomination to other newsgroups. Furthermore, you have MY NAME on it. Look, please try to understand, I am a writer, and one day I hope to make my living at it. What you're doing is destroying my reputation. Please STOP it immediately. In the first place, it is not your right to "improve" my story. There is an implied copyright on anything written and published unless otherwise stated. This is a very grey area at the moment, so I'm not going to push it. I'm just asking you to please write your OWN damn stories if you want to publish something over the 'Net? Okay? Yes, I'm flattered that you thought my story "good" enough to plagiarize, but I'd really rather that you stop now. -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ ........................................... | Andrew Nellis | ."When you see the crowd going one way, . | bs904@freenet.carleton.ca | . run like hell in the other direction." . +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ .................Charles Bukowski..........