Typing of the news (r)

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One who believe in Buddhism, one should be humble, forgive and forget.

Sathu! with metta, Amen.

On Sun, 8 Oct 1995 strider@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> From: <strider@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Dear Ken and Visakha,
> 
>   The misattribution of typing you noted is not the fault of ABSDF-MTZ, but
> rather is an editorial slip that BurmaNet is responsible for.  Members 
> of the section of the All-Burma Students Democratic Front led by Moe 
> Thee Zun voluntarily type some of the articles from the Bangkok Post 
> and the Nation.  Whatever disagreements of policy or politics anyone 
> might have with ABSDF-MTZ, what they are doing is a service to all 
> Burma watchers on the net, especially at times when technical problems 
> by the primary typists make it difficult for them to get on the net--as 
> you have noticed is happening at the moment.  The contributions emailed 
> to the net by ABSDF-MTZ have a notation about who did the typing, which 
> is included in issues of the BurmaNet News as a matter of course.  The 
> error in this case is not in acknowledging that ABSDF-MTZ made a 
> contribution to the net, which they did.  But in not also acknowledging 
> the work done by BRC-Japan.  I'm sorry for that oversight and I'll try 
> to make sure that all contributions to the net are properly acknowledged.
> 
>  Regards,
> 
>      Strider
> 
> 
> 
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>  > From brelief@xxxxxxx  Fri Oct  6 08:23:23 1995
>  > Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 00:27:23 +0900
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>  > From: brelief@xxxxxxx (Ken and Visakha Kawasaki)
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>  > Dear Burmanet, 
>  >
>  > We are piqued to find at the end of the net news the claim
>  > "Typed by the Research Department of the ABSDF
>  > {MTZ}," when there are items that we ourselves put on. 
>  > We don't feel it is necessary to give ourselves credit but we
>  > don't want MTZ and company to take credit for our
>  > postings.  From now on do we need to add typed by BRC -
>  > J or scanned by scanjet?  When postings are from news
>  > sources, why is it necessary to mention who typed them,
>  > except to apologize for an inordinate number of typos?  
>  >
>  > That leads us to another query.  Hasn't the volume of news
>  > from the Bkk Post and the Nation dropped recently?  What
>  > are we missing?  Do the typists of MTZ need
>  > supplementing?  
>  >
>  > That leads us to a final observation. Today we read a very
>  > pointed and articulate opinion on the net with no attribution
>  > whatsoever.  Luckily we had just read an abridged version
>  > of this same opinion on the editorial page of The Japan
>  > Times, where it was properly attributed to The Nation of
>  > October 4.  All news and editorial comments need to be
>  > clearly identified so that we can accurately quote our
>  > sources.  If nothing further is specififed, shouldn't we be
>  > able to assume they were written by the same people who
>  > posted them?
>  >
>  > Thanks very much for considering these issues.
>  >
>  > Ken and Visakha Kawasaki
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