On 20 July 2010 20:19, Eddie Fernandes <[email protected]> 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
