X-Message-Number: 27094
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: interviews
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:57:56 +0100

A genuine interview should be as a result of some direct communication
between the interviewer and the subject.

Using the web to get a selection of statements from a person made in other
interviews or in articles and then posting them to a web site making it look
as though a personal interview (in person, by telephone, exchange of
personal letters, or email)  has been conducted is misleading. It gives the
impression that the webmaster has a personal contact with someone when in
reality he does not. Using such an impression to enable the webmaster to
gain standing is dishonest, and if it is used to gain a monetary advantage
(even if indirectly) it is fraud and I would therefore believe it to be
illegal.

Such events can usually be discovered by taking blacks of text from the
suspected site and entering them into Google with quote marks around them.
If they appear in other web sites then it is usually an indication that the
supposed interview never took place.

-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more

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