Although Ken asked that this be dropped, in Ken's defense, over the years I
have been attending the national and regional conferences I have heard the
same concern expressed by at least a half a dozen people (and Ken was not
one of these).  It is not that people lift sentences word for
word;  rather, the feeling is that people steal paper ideas.

Deb

  At 03:24 PM 10/04/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Look, everybody, so far as I can tell I'm the only one who has expressed any
>worry about this.  Everybody else is giving lots of good rebuttal, and the
>majority view is clear.  Given that, can we drop the subject?  I'm getting
>increasingly embarrassed with each additional response.
>
>Ken