Amen, and amen! Well stated, Barbara! On Fri, 9 Dec 1994 [log in to unmask] wrote: > Dear Barbara Patterson: I'm not sure what is going on here. I do know > however that if we start negative talk re "permission" and "legal fees"in > regards repeating or "lifting" messages from a public bulletin board, we are > going to scare off many contributors and sound a death knell to this > wonderful public way of teaching and learning about Parkinsons. If you elect > to "publish" something on a "public" electronic bulletin board it must mean > that you want to get feedback from the public. You can of course always > elect to keep it private. But feedback is not a one way street. Once the > ideas are "out there" anyone can use them. That is precisely the value of > this PD internet list. Once ideas jell into a "finished work" published > under copyright protection it is a different story, but that is not what we > "seekers of the truth" are doing on this board. > Regards, > Barbara Yacos > <[log in to unmask]> >