Billy Beck wrote:
Mike Marron wrote:

I belong to a listserve that sends me these
entertaining short storys exactly as you saw them as forwarded
on this here NG. Now, obviously you DO have a "problem" with that
because you're asking for more attribution -- attribution that I have
neither the time nor the desire to provide for you.

That's not cool, Mike.

You do what you want, but I, for one, would never pass something
like that on without being able to cite it properly. I guess it's
just me and my thing for proper history and scholarship, but it's not
cool.

And I wonder how people could possibly be so lazy and
disrespectful. Anyone who would take the time to come up with stuff
like that -- which deserves the attention -- is just a goddamned
useless slacker for not going the extra two minutes it would take to
*cite* it.

I'd get tossed off that listserv in a heartbeat for telling 'em
so.

It's just an informal goddamn group of fighter pilots communicating
w/each other via email (I was invited to join the group by a friend).
You know, one of those long list of address strings copy and pasted in
the "To" field. It's not even a bona fide Yahoo email group for gawd's
sake!

What, are you going to throw the baby out with the bathwater simply
because they aren't citing *themselves* or their fellow comrades email
messages via proper "proper" MLA style? GMAFB!!

In any event, being a list of some 60 past and present fighter pilots
swapping stories w/each other via email is pretty cool and I've been
enjoying the hell out of their stories myself. And I will continue to
do so...but I damn sure won't share them with "RAM" (misnomer?)
since it seems to have caused such a problem for some.

-Mike (...damndest thing I've seen!) Marron