[Yossarian]

There's a link at the top of the forum that I was just told about today (don't know how long it's been there).

It's called Copyright Sources, and it warns you what sites we must excerpt, or avoid completely. (I don't think anyone's yet said we can't even create a link to their stuff.)

[Paleo Conservative]

But it would be nice if it were possible to submit just a link to an article and get back a response about whether or not the source can be used.

[altair]

Thanks for the link. Times have changed.

What I meant though was that there is a check at post/preview time on the source. It would be nice to have the code that performs that check linked to a button by the source text entry box so you could run it first before going through all the effort of formatting a full post.

I don't know the reasons why other people with membership dates in my era have continued on FRee Republic, but one of the main reasons that I have done so is the high quality of the forum software involved. It just feels more than a little disturbing that I could be about to do something that a trusted old friend doesn't want me to do and I wish I could ask to see if it's OK first.

Does that make sense?