On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:20:39 -0800, edbedb wrote:

Smitty Two wrote:

SNIP HAPPENS

Yes, it does. Copyrights exist automatically and by default, and letters
are protected just as much as any other creative work. You can register
a copyright, for a fee, but that simply gives you additional documented
proof that you are, indeed, the creator.


Oh sea, the old bullsit detector is now permanently pegged over
to the 125% number.

Smitty is right.** He's surely far closer to being right than you are,
and he managed to do it without vulgarity.

Generally he's right, nothing he said was wrong. But I'm not sure
there's really a problem here, at least not one that couldn't be
solved by eliminating the identifying information and changing a few
words for synonyms, etc. And that he wouldn't be making a profit from
posting it here that could be sued for. Plus the fact that it's
unlikely she's reading here and without identifying information, no
one will call it to her attention.