Theos-Talk Archives (June 2011 Message tt00064)

mkr -
very well said.
To falsely portray anyone's hard work and research as somehow your own, 
or not even at least referring to the source itself, is a moral issue.
I, also, have seen too much of this....  We (all) must try hard to keep 
this in mind.
John

On 6/12/2011 12:40 PM, MKR wrote:
> Give the devil its due
>
> In todayâs theosophical world, due to the efforts of many individual
> theosophists (not organizations with lots of money in the bank), a lot of
> material is available for free on Internet for download. The amount of
> material one can access for free is unheard of and is growing every day.
>
> Due to search engines, one frequently lands in a website and from that site
> one locates other sites where very valuable free theosophical information is
> available. It is not uncommon to see links provided so that with a click one
> goes to the location where the material is to be found.
>
> Many websites do have subtle marketing going on. Visitors who are led to
> commercial sites which sell books and other material and thus generate
> sales, may be compensating the sites which provide the leads. Visitor may be
> introduced to a site because of availability of rare materials or leads to
> rare materials which in turn gets referred to a commercial site.
>
> When one is led to a site with free material, one of the problems we see is
> that not sufficient  publicity is given to inform the visitor who did the
> real work. This is very important because we all need to give credit where
> it is due. Let us show our gratitude for the sacrifices.
>
> MKR