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in reply to External Refernces To code posted on Perl Monks

Definitely not nice to publish/use code snippets created by a perlmonk without giving credit.

But this raises another question: Typically, to give credit to someone, you first ask if it's ok and then list name and email (if the individual approves). But how to give credit to a perlmonk?

Thanks to monk_id won't mean anything to anyone not familiar with perlmonks.com.

In case you know the monk's real name, Thanks to Joe Schmoe will actually reveal the monk's identity if someone correlates the code with a posting on perlmonks.com -- something the helping monk probably won't like to happen.

Recommendations on proper credits to perlmonks personnel?

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Re^2: External Refernces To code posted on Perl Monks
by BUU (Prior) on Feb 13, 2005 at 07:35 UTC
    You credit the identity and correlate it to the site where the identity exists, unless further identification was given in the node itself.
Re^2: External Refernces To code posted on Perl Monks
by sleepingsquirrel (Chaplain) on Feb 18, 2005 at 19:17 UTC
    In case you know the monk's real name, Thanks to Joe Schmoe will actually reveal the monk's identity if someone correlates the code with a posting on perlmonks.com -- something the helping monk probably won't like to happen.
    Just curious, but are most monks afraid of someone correlating their perlmonks alias with their real name?


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      2) My code would be linked to me. Everything I post is unintentionally wrong and could detonate at any moment.

      All jocular of course - I really don't care except that I have a very, hmm... unique name, and people might try to track me down and sell me magazines or something. Blech.
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