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Old 03-17-2005, 04:10 PM
jdemarco jdemarco is offline
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Default I don't think so

The Laws and other protections that protect and authors works, are not just to protect the author from plagurinsm or whatever.... they're also to protect the audience from imposters or misrepresentation.

You wrote the articel that i am replying to, I need to believe that YOU wrote it, and you intended for the contenst of it to be what you wrote. I'm depending on that information to be accurate as you intended it to be.

I'm depending on any links in your articel to be links that YOU intended to put there, or that YOU alolowed to be put there on your behalf as a relavent part of the article, and I ned to trust that if I follow thos links thay will take me to places that you intended me to see as part of illustrating the points in your article or providing resources and information that YOU belive I can trust as relaible, accurate and unbiased.

I DON'T need or want middleman shyster website owner advertiser or whoever to stick THEIR links into YOUR article whethor relevant or not. experiance has shown that their motivation is not the furtherance of my education or enlightnment on the subject matter that you are writing about, but their motivation is to sell me something oneway or another, to get me to see their advertisements to buy their products or to get me to see their point of view and ideas on a subject matter that may or may not be a point of view or ideas that you had in mind for me to be waylayed by while I'm trying to read Your article.

Now if YOU want to allow them to place all their ads and links and ideas AT THE BOTTOM of the page AFTER your article, so that AFTER I'm all done reading Your article, I might be free to explore those other ads, links and ideas on my own with the understanding that they are not part of your article and may lead to other articles, ads or ideas that are not your and are not endorsed by you, than that would be fine... but that would make them just another bunch of competeing ads that we already see on websites all the time and and entirely not what "they" had in mind.

Call me a purist, but I don't believe an authors work should "poisoned" or altered in any way not intended by the author, except maybe his Editor in the context of a newspaper or web news article.

If "they" want their viewpoint heard, "they" should write their own article not weasle into yours.

Joe DeMarco
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