Dear Piya and friends,

;-)

Piya, I am not sure if you have only addressed half of the issues.
However, allow me to clarify for myself.

1. On plagiarism. All solutions (grammar exercises and sutta
translations) I posted to the group were my personal work, which I am
happy and delighted to share with the world. Anyone can obtain the
messages from the group's archive anytime, anywhere, any computer. I
have never posted solutions on others' behalf, or posted solutions
worked by others. In fact, that's why I posted them, so that some kind
souls in the group can check and correct any mistakes I made.

2. On copyright of materials. The materials I posted to the group are
always credited. These materials are usually available for "free
distribution", a term unfamiliar to many people, especially
non-Buddhists. I do not wish to drag on with this as we understand
well that the Buddhadhamma is the best gift of all. The materials I
provide are those adequate for group study and _freely available_ in
the real world and/or the virtual world.

I certainly discourage plagiarism and unauthorised copying of
materials. If anyone notice that due credits have not been given to
any piece of work, please inform the group. In addition, Yahoo! has a
http://info.yahoo.com/copyright/details.html page for reporting
copyright infringements.

I have previously noted that I am currently working on the Pali
Document Format (PDF), which will keep me busy for a while.

However, I reckon it's also time to update the Welcome Message we send
to new members. Nina helped me with the previous update quite a while
back. This time, we will also worked on the message footer. It
currently already includes a link to PDF (which deals with different
issues). It can also includes a nice little note similar to H-Net, if
only Piya or anyone likes to contribute to it.


metta,
Yong Peng.

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