I'm quite delighted to see that 'the F/F group' is getting so much attention here, especially given that whilst a small degree of onanism is tolerated there, onanology is rather discouraged.

I do have one small request, however, concerning the re-posting of messages / stories. This is simply that one get the permission of a respective author before re-posting a message / story in whole or in part. Under copyright conventions, it is quite fine to provide quotations relevant to a discussion, but otherwise the authors of stories published on the Internet are entitled to the same rights as those of stories published on paper.

There is, of course, no way to enforce or prove anything, especially on a bulletin board where it seems as though about five people are responsible for about 50 usernames. But respecting this simple request re: intellectual property rights would be very nice, and its level of nicety is what has made this board's reputation, after all.

Steff is right, of course, in what she says re copyright.

However, I have a feeling that 'Dot' is rather unlikely to bring an action in this matter.

That having been said, there remains the matter of niceness - which must be left to the consciences of those concerned.

Could the person who expresses concern about the reproduction of copyright material on this board be the same person who posts articles from newspapers on spankingmemories.com?

Surely not!

No, certainly not. You're dead right; isn't that someone called Celine of the hundred ID's?

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances,
A woman in her time plays many parts,
And appreciates a warm hand upon her entrance.

I should have written:

Could the Steff who expresses concern about the reproduction of copyright material on this board be the same Steff who posts articles from newspapers on spankingmemories.com?

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it shall follow, as the night the day,
Thou can'st not then be false to any man.