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Rules on Copying and Pasting Articles/Materials
Forum Rules
To all:
The following are the rules on copying and pasting materials that were not authored by you. These rules cover *ANY* and *ALL* material you did not personally write, and these rules cover every forum on TNET. If you do not follow these rules, your post will be removed.
This is *NOT* done to limit anyone's access to material. Rather this is done to prevent Teamster.net from getting sued under the auspices of intellectual property copyright law. Further, by following all of the steps below, readers will have the option of clicking on the link you provide to get the full story; access to information is limited only to the extent that readers are too lazy to click on your provided link.
All of the following steps must be followed. You cannot simply pick from the list and call it a day.
(1) Provide a link to where the material was found. If the material comes from a printed book or magazine or some other non-linkable but printed source, then posters must provide the name of the book as well as the author;
(2) Provide the author's name at the top of the post below the link
(3) Include no more than 4 paragraphs of the work. If the work is equal to or less than 4 paragraphs, then you must omit at least one paragraph.
The link provided *MUST* actually link to the material itself. Any links which direct TNET visitors to something other than the material in question are a direct violation of the rules, and any such thread which makes an obvious effort to steer TNETters astray will be removed.
Additionally, *NO MATERIAL* coming from emails is allowed to be reposted under any circumstance. The reason for this is that it's nearly impossible to figure out if emailed material is simply copied and pasted from someone's [potentially] copyrighted website/work.
Thanks for everyone's cooperation.