SHP.....Missing Doug

Yes, me too.

I was looking through some old archived posts a few days ago and realised how many of the original and seasoned members are missing these days.Michael

I believe Doug was living at Mt Bundy for an extended period, but has now moved down to Orange, where he still appears to be alive and kicking.

Tony - The most recent action on Dougs behalf that I can find, is him posting videos to YouTube.
I know it's the real Doug, because of his major love affair with Andrea Berg! LOL

Although it does appear he's picked up a new squeeze in recent times.

On his YouTube account, there's a video of Doug doing a tour around Orange in a Tiger Moth, from Dec 2017.

https://www.youtube.com/user/B24JLiberator/videos

One of the problems with Dougs SHP was the sheer amount of text and photos he just "cut and pasted" from other sites, to make up his SHP.

The vast majority of people don't take too kindly to their words and photos being re-used without permission, without acknowledgement, and without their knowledge.

Copyright law is quite strong and extends to the whole of the Internet. It's not "open slather" to steal other peoples images and text off the 'net, despite many "operators" thinking its O.K.

Funnily enough, Doug is a retired truckie - and I've found truckies are the worst, when it comes to "swiping" other people images and information off the 'net, without any credit or acknowledgement or permission!

One truckie in Wantirna with a very large trucking website, is a persistent offender in this regard, and I'm quite surprised he hasn't been sued.

To supply a Sunday History item properly (and legally) would mean the entire text would need to be written up by the person posting, and any images used would need the permission of the photo owners, and acknowledgement given for those photos.

I think that amount of work is way beyond most peoples desire or ability, particularly as there's no financial reward for that amount of work, on a forum such as this.

Cheers, Ron.

Bring back Sunday History Photo
Cheers mechpete

Tony, I think Doug still volunteers as a presenter at FM 107.5 Orange, Wednesday afternoons

I miss Doug and his regular writeups. Doug I hope youre doing well.

I'm probaly guilty of not contributing of late. I'm finding as I get older I'm spending heaps more time at the 'Vet' gettting bits or 'rust' that are creeping creeping in here and there sorted, this is slowing me down a bit.

What I've noticed is facebook is used more and more nowadays. From my perspective info posted there tends to be difficult to find and revisit, its much easier in a forum such as this.

Our younger folk, god bless them, prefer FB. As that side of comms between us develops I hope we don't lose more and more columns such as Doug's.