I recently posted a Tale of 2 states, sent to me by a friend. I asked his permission to post it, and he said ok, but to not mention him. SO I cleaned it up and posted it. I had thought I had attributed it to anonymous at the end, but upon looking back on it, I see that line was deleted. So some got the impression that I had written it. I did not say I did.
Then some accused me of avoiding it. SOme people spend all day haunting the forums, but as I have stated before, I cannot get into the forums, so the only way I know when something has been commented upon is through email notification. I had not received any such notification until today.
Upon learning that the offending article was missing the attribution, I deleted it. But before letting it go, I did want to appologize to any who thought I was trying to deceive them, or that thought I was the originator. It was not my intention to deceive nor claim credit. I posted it as you saw, but the "I" in the first line, I assumed (and it still may be true) was the friend who sent it.
I am not in the habit of plagarizing, and do not make a career of it. But I also made a mistake in not proof reading the article before I posted it, or indeed at any time since then until today. Yes, it is plagarism, and for that I am sorry.