Re: Brett's Reaver's Deep

Part of thread: Brett's Reaver's Deep · 1 reply ↳ In reply to Re: Brett's Reaver's Deep — DEREK STANLEY Re: Brett's Reaver's Deep — krugerbf
Nice work, Brett!

> Brett stunned me by finding a link to my website on waybackmachine.org for
> which I cannot begin to thank him enough. I'm hoping to get my hands on
> the 80%+ of the site that still seems to exist there. If anyone can think
> of a way, Brett thinks he might be able to use some FTP system to DL the
> site in one big chunk, to as I said DL the site in one big chunk, please
> let me know and I'll be your best friend forever.
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> If you're interested in what I did all those years ago... Ya it was almost
> 15 years back now.
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> http://web.archive.org/web/20050204140602/http://members.shaw.ca/nightrim/
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> Derek Stanley
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "krugerbf" <>
> To: "Traveller TNE" <>
> Sent: Monday, July 2, 2012 2:38:59 PM
> Subject: [Traveller_TNE] Re: Brett's Reaver's Deep
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> Thanks Dave,
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> Excellent idea.
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> Brett.
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>> Brett--
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>> You can also put a standard disclaimer on your site stating the sources
>> that you have used, and pointing out that you are aware that some of
>> those sources may have used materials produced by others without being
>> cited/credited, and that it is your intent to provide proper credit in
>> all cases. If anyone sees anything on your site that is not properly
>> credited, please contact you so that you can ensure that it is properly
>> credited.
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>> Since you are just doing this for fun, there is a limit to how much
>> research you can be expected to do to untangle stuff that people before
>> you did that you are using in good faith.
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>> Dave
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>> > Most of the stuff in the KB source book is pretty legitimate and
>> wouldn't cause me any concern. UWP data I wouldn't worry one bit
>> about, History of the Deep... I'd do some research on that to see if
>> the KB's put it out in their original 1970's publications if not I
>> think the earliest reference of history I found was on Kevin
>> Pittsinger's Candles Against the Night website and that was probably
>> back in the mid 90's. Thus, if you can't find an earlier reference
>> it's quite possible that Kevin came up with the history and not the
>> Keith Brothers.
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>> > Google is incredibly useful for finding authors and examples of
>> plagiarism, I have a friend who's a grade 11 teacher and he regularly
>> cut and pastes paragraphs of things his students have given him into
>> Google. Quite often you can find things date stamped on line. Most
>> lists have archives and most fanfic authors typically run their ideas
>> past other fans as they're creating things.
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>> > Derek Stanley
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>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "krugerbf" <krugerbf@...>
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>> > Yes, I have found many inconsistencies. I just discovered a web site
>> called videogamegeek.com which has a page called "Atlas of the Third
>> Imperium: Reaver's Deep". It lists all the official publications that
>> came out before the RDSSB, and I think I have most of these, so I can
>> use those to cross check the data.
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>> > Thanks Derek, as I've said before, quite difficult to track down and
>> acknowledge original authors.
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>> > Brett.
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