See now I would think the Ethics course would be more of a "Miss Manners" type intro into the world of information searching. Reason being, I get emails that infuriate me...like ones TELLING me, "I'm using one of your articles for my newsletter." Well, gee...I'm going to use your car to run my errands, too...and bring it back on empty. How do you like that?

The thing is, people assume so much in their research of things. They don't do their homework beforehand (and I'm not referring to you, dear girl) and they look for shortcuts.

So to me, it would be unethical for a information specialist to grab one of my articles, give it to their clients, and say "use this." That's one example...

But another one would be email people when it is unsoliticed and when you are trying to get their business.

Another would be to grab info without getting permission (which goes back to the first one, but could be different, too)

And then again.................you may just want to tell me to go back to sleep. LOL!

I've seen "specialist" who offer the world through advertising, skills they DO NOT possess or have never used...yet they call themselves "specialist." Just another.

So what I'm getting at is that the philosophy may be a snoozer, but I would think there would be more to it...maybe???