This is a flyspeck of a problem compared to the Iraq war, torture of U.S.-held prisoners and the deceptions carried out by the current administration in Washington. I cannot affect what President Bush and his cohorts do, but I can take care of my little issue.

A woman whose Weblog I listed under “Older Bloggers” began her own blogroll with the same title using links from my list. So far, so good. Wider distribution of Websites I like is the point of the blogroll.

She acknowledges in a post (buried because she only publishes excerpts on her home page) that her list is “completely stolen from Ronni Bennett,” and links my name to my “About” page with an additional link to home page. All that is still generally well and good.

Then I discovered she has posted all my links, no new ones, under the title “Older Bloggers’s Digest,” on one of those aggregate Weblog list sites, and doesn’t even credit me there.

That takes balls.

Use my stuff. Quote me whenever, wherever you like. Tell others about stuff you find here that you like. But play nice and give credit. That includes using the “via” convention to acknowledge the original source when you learn of a Weblog worth writing about from another blog. It’s the right thing to do.

Whew! I’m glad I got that off my chest.

And I’ve removed the offender from my blogroll.