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Hello Carol,

"Carol T" <ateasd5941@btinternet.com> wrote:
> If you want to keep it your idea and think that you may need proof in the
> future to prove it was actually yours, write it down, put it in an envelope,
> get a freind to sign their signiture over the sealed part, and send it to
> yourself by registered post. Don't open the envelope or touch it again, just
> keep it somewhere very safe. Then feel safe to discuss the idea with your
> tutors or others.
> Tutors are not supposed to take student's ideas and take credic for them,
> but realistically I suspect that they do so all the time, even if they don't
> do it purposely. Think of an English tutor who has read a well sounding
> phrase from a student which sits comfortably in their ears, of course they
> are going to adopt it.
> All the posts on the newsgroups are archived at Deja news  for years, as
> long as they are not carrying an instruction to do otherwise.

Thanks for all your advice.

The question i have still is, if it makes a difference, to send
the theory in a sealed envelope to myself instead just posting in
a NG? Google/Deja fetches it anyway. Or wouldn't a posting's
timestamp stored at google not enough as a proof?


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best regards, 
Wolfram

@ Cologne, Germany