[at-l] Plagiarism Police (was The Police)

[Mara Factor]

Hi Folks,

This poem was originally titled "Candidate for a Pullet Surprise" and was 
written by Jerrold H. Zar.  The entire poem is a bit longer than this 
version.  You can read the full text and its history at:

http://grammar.about.com/od/spelling/a/spellcheck.htm

or better yet at Zar's page:

http://www.bios.niu.edu/zar/poem.html

For what it's worth, my sister and brother-in-law who wrote a poem that was 
printed in the Boston Globe some years ago have been plagiarized many times 
and I was recently contacted by a forums moderator when one of my pages was 
recently plagiarized so I guess I'm a bit sensitive to the issue these days. 
  Plus, for many quotes, it's pretty easy to identify attributions with a 
web search even if a version distributed to you may have lost the 
attribution.

I recommend including a link rather than full text, an attribution whenever 
possible, and a short synopsis so someone will know why they might want to 
click on the link rather than copying someone else's work.

Just thought I would provide some food for thought...

</plagiarism police hat = off>

Mara
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>From: "Carla & Dave Hicks" <daveh at psknet.com>
>Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:02:41 -0500
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>My Spell Checker Works Grate!
>
>Eye halve a spelling chequer
>It came with my pea sea...

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