Oh, yeah.

[bubosquared]

For those who still care, the email I sent back to the plagiarist:

Subject:  Re: Rewritten story
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:33:44 +0100
From: Sofie 'Melle' Werkers 
Organization: femgeeks dot net -- for chicks with byte
To: <snipped>

> Hi Melle (hope I can still call you that),

**shrug** I don't really go by any other name, so.
 
> Anyway I've asked the moderator to delete it from the archive because
> I don't think that I'll be able to contact Cassandra with my bloody
> old e-mail account (as I wrote to the list I've already tried it
> *before* posting the story).

And yet, you still posted without permission. 

Look, I don't want to come across as a colossal bitch, here, but
Cassandra is my friend, and I don't like it when people do this to my
friends. Or anyone, for that matter. Cassandra is one of the most
approachable pepole I know, and I *know* her email account
(benn_matt@yahoo.com) works. If you didn't get any reply, you should
have not posted the story. I understand wanting to start easy, so to
speak, but posting the story without permission was tacky at best, and
plagiarism in my eyes.

I understand you didn't mean any offense, but that doesn't change the
fact that I think it's very, very bad form to do this.

Melle

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Comments

Wow...

[coneyislandbaby]

You were really great. A lot less emotional (a big part of my reaction is still "How could she do that to me") than I would have been, blunt, but not offensive at all.

*hug*

Re: Wow...

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Sigh. Thank you. Listmum seems to be implying I'm the one with the problem and that i'm overreacting. Thanks, hon.

Re: Wow...

[coneyislandbaby]

Listmum seems rather lackadaisical about the whole thing, though she did contact me and I said what I'd do as a list mod (ban at least for a period of time if not permanently, say onlist that it's not okay). I just don't see the point of having a huge tantrum about it and acting like a diva *g*. I'll leave that to Darren and Brian and Kirk, they do it so much better than I do.

But at least she did do something.