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I think there are both intellectual property issues and netiquette issues to consider. When Barbara Blake-Krebs and I wrote the book "When Parkinson's Strikes Early" (2001), which included excerpts from parkinsn list postings by a number of listmembers - our publisher required that we request and receive written permission to use any quoted text from the person who wrote it. Almost everyone willingly gave their permission, but a few people, for whatever reason, did not want their words and thoughts originally meant for other listmembers to be published, and we respected their wishes.We also sought and received the permission of the list owners Barbara Patterson and John Cottingham. It is not so much a matter of privacy anymore, since these days all of our postings are accessible to anyone on the Web, but still, i think it is a good practice to ask people first, if their postings are to be used in another format, such as a book or article. Annette, I will be glad to send the you language we used for the permssion forms, if you'd like. Linda Herman -- NATHANIEL GREEN <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Hi all, I'm new to the list, but I agree with this past statement, that the quotes taken from this list could very easily be assigned a source with simple searching. So anonymity is definitely not guaranteed. It would be unfortunate for a journalist to publish information and have the people who believe this board is a safe place to share information (quietly) find that it is not. NG Arnie Kuzmack <[log in to unmask]> wrote: I have no objection. I would point out, for the information of list members, that the precautions that Annette is taking to preserve anonymity are not a guarantee. Given the capability of Web search engines, it may well be possible (or become possible in the future) to locate the source of a quote, particularly if it is longer than a sentence or so. I would suggest, as a precaution, that Annette make non-substantive changes in the quotes, particularly the longer ones. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Annette Leibing" To: Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 12:22 AM Subject: quoting | Dear Listmembers, | | as I told you recently, I am studying how people help themselves. I am | writing an article in which I quote some of you, but without saying which | list I mean, nor do I quote names or any information that reveals anything | negative or embarrassing. Does anybody of you object to this kind of | quoting? Once finished writing or once published, depending on your | preference, I could send the article to anybody interested. | | If you want to write to me off list, here is my email: [log in to unmask] | | Thank you very much! | | Annette Leibing | | Annette Leibing, PhD | Medical Anthropologist | Professor of Mental Health | Montreal, Qc, Canada | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] | In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn