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From: "Richard McCool" <>
Subject: [APG] Stolen Artistic and Intellectual Property; Please Say SYS, not Uncle
Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 15:40:00 -0400

Dear Artists, Authors, Intellectuals, Researchers and Scientists,

I am thinking about starting an ad hoc "State Your Sources" WWW
movement. I make no claims to this idea, should it not be original,
outside of having been plagiarized, and otherwise misused, too often. I
am not published, but hope to be. And hope as well that there will be a
place for me, and others like me, somewhere in this cacophonic Internet
universe.

SYS will patrol the Internet 24/7, per your personal surfing, asking
pointedly of all persons publishing to the 'Net that they state clearly
and concisely from whom they have the information about which they [now]
post. The reply to such statements being, "Please state your sources."
This question to be posed in all its starkness and sincerity, by itself,
as often as is necessary. Reproduction and redundancy are, after all, at
the heart of all sciences. Art learns from it, and vice versa.

The sign-off will be "Your SYS," telling all honest persons in the SYS
Movement, and their catchers-on, that "'We' are on it."

Thank you for giving this your careful consideration--and hoping to see
my SYSters everywhere,

Richard Alan McCool

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