[Peach]

Good letter and I'd like to offer a suggestion if I may.

One time I wrote a letter to the editor and submitted it to the newspaper. Before it was published, I put the letter on Free Republic.

I got an e-mail from the publisher of the paper telling me they could not publish my letter because it was already on the internet on a web site called Free Republic and I may have copied it.

I tried to convince the publisher that I was Peach and that the letter was mine, but of course, they couldn't chance it.

Many newspapers use the same software that colleges use to ensure that students aren't plagiarizing material.

So if your letters has not already been published, I'd ask for this post to be pulled.

[Shamrock-DW]

'Senator Ted Kennedy demands a time for pullout from Iraq. How can someone be so juvenile, we made this mistake, but on a smaller scale in Afghanistan, and decades later it came back to haunt us on September 11 2001.'

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[HHKrepublican_2]

Thanks for the advice, I'll have it pulled when i submit the letter...thanks again.

[CFC__VRWC]

I tried to convince the publisher that I was Peach and that the letter was mine, but of course, they couldn't chance it.

That's a good point, and a convenient excuse that editors use to avoid printing letters from conservatives. They do not apply that plagiarism standard in reverse - on any given day of the week, you will see essentially the same leftist letter to the editor (with only very minor variations in grammar and wording) in hundreds of papers all over the country. These editorial page editors know they're getting spammed with material lifted straight off the DNC or MoveOn websites, but they look the other way. After all, they're not going to rat each other out.