Email 2004-08-12
Dear
webmaster
I
know imitation is flattery, but copying without being conscious of what you
are doing is either stupid or stealing! Here’s what you say, folks,
“we
are emphasizing facts over form”
Hmmm.
On
your site, under links for
Corsica
, you have copied loads of links directly from Corsica Isula. I don’t
mind that as such, but I find it stupid that you have not done any editing, or
updating. Since you have copied my own text you are making false claims,
for instance. I know that none of
you live in Calvi (neither do I anymore – I have moved elsewhere
in
Corsica
), none of you was ever a
director of Femu Qui SA etc. So I have to assume that whichever of you
in the extended family put in these links is stupid. Stupid I say
advisedly, since an intelligent reading of the site would yield many sites
which are far more appropriate to mariners than, for example a secondary
school in
Bastia
.
Your
Corsica
buttons lead to blank pages in the main. I know that yours is a work in
progress, just like mine, but basic yacht harbour data, natural sea reserves
and much of the data that a page about
Corsica
might usefully have for Archipelago visitors is easily obtained. Many
better that you remove your
Corsica
section until you have done the work.
Please
do me the kindness of doing the following:
- say
that you have lifted the links from www.corsica-isula.com
– I don’t know how many people are the ‘thousands’ that you say
visit your site, but you may like to know that Corsica Isula has about 200 000
a year and many consider it to be the internet reference on
Corsica
.
- remove
text that I have written, since (a) the first person singular references
are not to you and (b) you have no idea if any of it is still correct.
Then replace it with your own text (assuming you will bother
to visit the sites you mention) or
- remove
them altogether and do your own work.
Perhaps
you would have the courtesy of letting me know what you have done.
Respectfully
Will
Webmaestru
Corsica Isula
Visit
www.corsica-isula.com -
Corsica
from the inside!
It is said that
Corsica is a mountain in the sea, boasting 1000 km of coast (where the sea depth
can at times reach 2500m) and some 120 peaks at a height of between 2000 and
2700m; it honours its name “Ile de Beauté” through the luminosity of its
contrasts and the intensity of its landscapes. It covers an 8748m2 surface area
and is situated at about 160 km from the South of France, 82 km from Tuscany and
12 km from Sardinia. Its sand amongst the finest, its rivers flowing down from
the mountains, the diversity of its landscapes, the wealth of its protected
wildlife (thanks, among other things, to the first regional nature park covering
land and sea), its numerous ancestral hiking paths, make of Corsica an island
where discovery is permanent, where pleasure is within reach, where poetry
accompanies you every step of the way……
It was
during the tertiary era that the alpine system's shake-up had the genius for
creating the fracture of a part of the old continent called tyrrhenide and
raising it up, through the ages, for giving birth to this dazzingly beautiful
isle which is now called Corsica..
Situated
at the junction of the maritime roads leading from France to Italy and the East,
and from Central Europe to Italy and Spain, Corsica with 8772 km2, 183 km long
and 83 km wide and 1000 km of coasts, is the third largest isle of the Western
Mediterranean and the highest too because it reaches its highest point at an
altitude at 2710 km!
