© Michael I. Smith, 2014
BACKGROUND
This is the first post at Forest Army for 2014 and it seems
that perhaps it is time to undertake some administrative housekeeping. Frequent visitors here will know that I
maintain a separate – more active – Civilian Conservation Corps blog at the Civilian Conservation Corps Resource
Page. Eventually, I may phase out
posts here at Forest Army and hopefully migrate content that is currently here,
over to the CCC Resource Page but in the meantime, visitors can jump between
the two blogs by clicking the image under the phrase “Please visit my other CCC
blog” which appears along the left hand side of the blog page here. I hope that visitors will find ample reason
to jump between the two in search of new, interesting CCC material but my hope
is that you won’t find the jumping between blogs to be too bothersome.
BUYER BEWARE!
Recently, while doing a Google search for material related
to the Civilian Conservation Corps, an image from this blog appeared with the
related Google images. Problem was, when
I checked the source of the image, the link took me to a different blog with a
very similar name. More shocking still,
that blog is an exact copy of the Forest Army blog you are viewing here, except
the posts are listed as having been posted by a “Walters Louann”. Fortunately, the copyright line I put at the
end of my articles does appear on the mirror site but it’s disconcerting to see
your work posted verbatim on another blog.
I sent an email to the Google Blogger folks but, perhaps not
surprisingly, there was no response. I
suspect the site that is mirroring my blog is coming from overseas; perhaps
Asia.
I’m not relaying this bit of information because I think you
should go over and view the blog that is basically an exact copy of my Forest
Army blog, not even out of basic curiosity.
On the contrary, I think you should avoid going to that blog because I
don’t have any idea what sort of spam or malware might be attached to the links
they are using. Going forward, you will
likely see my copyright information more prominently posted here at Forest Army
and at the CCC Resource Page. I research
and write about the CCC in order to share information and I’m pleased when
visitors comment that my site is helpful or interesting and I generally agree
to any requests to use information or link to my page, but obviously, finding a
pirate blog that purports to be Forest Army is frustrating and I will do what I
can to make certain that my own research and writing is recognized, for better
or worse.
DROP ME A NOTE
Please enter a comment or question if you have one either here
or at the CCC Resource Page. Feedback,
any feedback, is often the spark that motivates people to continue researching and
writing and the effort becomes somewhat meaningless if the worker never hears
back from the folks using the product of his or her labor.
© Michael I. Smith, 2014
