"Paul Stewart" wrote in
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It's his M.O. - he post other peoples material with no regard for
copyrights or laws . . .

Dear Don, Ray, & Paul;
Thank you for the supporting comments. I was hoping that my defensive post
would not be taken as an over-reaction.

I also have thousands of private aviation photos that I DO scan and share
and send high-res images of (free of course) to many researchers and buffs,
and modelers, on various aviation forums. I posted a lot of my aviation art
collection on my website so others could enjoy viewing it. But that was
some four years ago... THESE days(after being advised by those with more
Internet experience) I tend to overlay all the images with a text
indicating copyrighted material. 99.9% of Internet surfers respect that and
are content to enjoy and correspond about it. But I've learned there are a
few pitfalls to posting images, on occassion. I rarely mind copying for
personal use, but when you see copies (of material that cost you a pretty
penny) printed out on some copier, and sold on EBAY, (without any credit or
permission) it can be upsetting. And when you want to use one of your
images in a magazine article, and the editor says it is now a common image
seen all over the Internet, so they don't want to use it, That can be a
little upsetting, also.

Haven't used the newsgroups in a while. I've never seen these Exclamation
point/red icons before, in the threads. Do you put them in yourSELVES, or
are they put in by some group Moderator?