Plagiarism?

[Pat Bertram]

I had a bit of a scare this morning. I checked my blog as usual found a comment on my "Origin of the Grim Reaper" bloggery from someone named Robert Weniger, who said: You Plagiarist. I posted the exact words and you copy/pasted it from my website.

Um . . . What??

I love Wordpress and all the statistics and information one gets! Besides email addresses from commenters, wordpress notes the IP address. I searched for Weniger's address on the "What is My IP Address" site, and discovered the comment had been sent from a proxy server. According to the IP address site, A proxy server is a computer that offers a computer network service to allow clients to make indirect network connections to other network services. A client connects to the proxy server, then requests a connection, file, or other resource available on a different server. The proxy provides the resource either by connecting to the specified server or by serving it from a cache. In some cases, the proxy may alter the client's request or the server's response for various purposes.

Apparently, the comment was some sort of spam. What's interesting is that most of that particular bloggery was plagiarized, though if one credits the writer, it's not truly plagiarism. It's called research. So, if you're interested in my citation of William Bramley's grim reaper information, be sure to check out The Origin of the Grim Reaper.

I also had a delightful surprise this morning. At today's Daughter Am I blog tour stop, Zhadi's Den, they are talking about my books! Wow, if anything will make someone feel like a real writer, it's e-vesdropping on a people discussing one's works. (Nope, that's not a typo. I just thought it looked better than e-eavesdropping.) So, please meet me at Zhadi's Den to talk about consistency in writing or my books, which...



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