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Rene, Kevin, With each and every issue I am one of those who devours every issue, and I have watched Kevin grow since my early days with the Washington, Virginia, Maryland Garden Railway Society and following his dad Jim around their magnificent layout at their Maryland home. I get a lot of enjoyment from seeing what the younger set is doing and the skills they are doing it with. I know that this hobby will continue long after us old timers are gone. What I take as an issue far worse than the copying, which a lot of folks do out of ignorance, is the outright theft of an article. Having authored over 200 artticles myself for both online use and the Aristo Craft Insider, it is quite alarming to get a curtesey copy of a clubs newsletter and see something that I had written two or three years ago show up with someone else's name as the author. They even left in a couple of errors that I made in the original article, just copied it word for word. Had they asked for permission to use it, it would have been granted without hesitation as I am sure that Garden Railways has done on ocasion. It's just sometimes good business to do this so folks can see the real source of the information and it's free advertising. I contacted the individual who was representing himself as the author of the article, and the Editor of the newsletter who was horrified unitl he found out that I was not interested in sueing them just getting it corrected. The individual who claimed to be the author actually defended his position that he was the author until I made it known to him that I had the original printed copy of the article as well as the original photographs. I will complement him on one respect his photo work was much better than mine but then digital camers have come a long way in the past four years. This is also another reason I try to read every issue from cover to cover, on several occasions I have had to contact George Schreyer and ask him for persmission or advice on useing some verbage from his web site. When doing something that is technical it is so ofter pretty easy for two people to take the same path that we all have to watch this closely. Keep up the good work and keep the articles on standard gauge comming! Ron
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