Pagarism is a bad thing.

Hello,

My name is Tom Sorrell and I wrote the Blink 182 article. Here is the link to where it was first posted:
http://www.ubersite.com/m/35873

You may be wondering why I'm here. Well, today I got an e-mail from a member of this forum asking me why I posted this story here. The simple answer is, I did not. Someone else did.

Now normally I wouldn't have a problem with that. I mean, an article I wrote is getting free publicity on another forum to go along with the 12,000 hits it has already received at Ubersite. Cool, right? No, it is not. I have a problem with the way this person posted it.

Not only did he not link to the article, he didn't even give me credit for writing it. He posted it like it was his own idea and experience. There's a word for that: plagarism.

I don't care that I've received over 50 pieces of hate mail, 2 death threats, and four viruses because of this article. But some person copying it and pasting it without even giving me credit pisses me off to no end.

I'm very happy you liked my article enough to post it on some skiing forum. If you like that one so much, I've written about 40 others at Ubersite:
(http://www.ubersite.com/u/BuckeyesTHEGAME)

and I posted the best ones on my website: (www.TomSorrell.net). Maybe you'll enjoy some of them as well.

If you like them and want to post them on a message board, that's perfectly fine with me; however, please include a link along with it.

Thank You,
Tom Sorrell

PS: IF anyone doesn't believe I am the actual author, take a little trip over to Ubersite and look at the review on there from me (user name is BuckeyesTHEGAME). Here it is:

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Submitted by BuckeyesTHEGAME (user info)
at 2004-06-29 14:49:27

Plagarism is bad. People shouldn't steal other people's work and try to pass it off as their own.

WHEN YOU COPY AND PASTE THIS ONTO A MESSAGE BOARD, GIVE ME CREDIT FOR IT.
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If you still don't believe that person is me, click on 'User Info' next to the name. You'll see that I did in fact write it.