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Internet Resources and Citations

I figure that it might be a nice idea to come up with some system to 
cite this internet material on here and be more or less uniform about it
since, well, most people researching on the internet probably got their
sources from the list that was posted by (I believe) Pat.
 
Thus I present: Joe's Modest Proposal
 
I. Articles on internet, but not in print: Include the authors name, date,
   nameof place you got it (NATO Enviro. Database - Top Secret Reports),

   and the internet address.  That way people can go verify it, the way
   we do with text citations now.
 
II. On Internet and In print: Full source cite like a text citation + internet
    cite per I.
 
III. I really don't want to touch this one, I don't think it'll crop up
     often, but if it does get cited I'd put an internet cite per I.
 
IV. I wont do it if you don't.  Seriously though, I have some reservations
    about quoting people who are "talking".  For example, the CEDA L isn't
    really a place to get your theory evidence, I don't think this counts
    as published writing.  I also don't think what scientists chat about
    on listservs necessarily constitutes accurate scientific predictions
    based on experiments or evidence.  I'm not entirely convinced that, just
    because they're "experts" in their field, their non-published opinions
    or statements should be used as "evidence" to support an argument.  I'm
	
    sure there are arguments both ways and I'd like to hear them before I
    start sending Doyne Farmer e-mail about whether or not his artificial
    life research will annihilate the universe before a deep sea bed
    mining program could be put in place.
 
Joe Boyle
Harding University
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