Posted on 10/27/2003 10:41:53 AM PST by Admin Moderator
Hi all,
It's time again for another posting refresher course. Thanks for your cooperation.
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I would throw in THIS tip too ! Some folks post excerpts unnecessarily.
Only the WP and LAT sources require excerpts.
Outside of WP and LAT articles I would think that only EXCEPTIONALLY LONG articles need excerpting.
Even those of us who have been here for a while could benefit from reading it.
My reference/orientation for Freeper Newbies ...
Here is a link. Go to post #116 first (link should take you right to that post), and look under "Pictures". That will give a walk-thru for picture posting. That article gives a lot of very useful and helpful tips on HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), which you need to post on FR. There are other related links and information there as well.Click Here.
You might want to bookmark that article. Bookmarking puts an article on your FReeper Profile page for quick and easy referencing. See post #53 & 59 for bookmarking instructions.If you have any questions or problems, feel free to send me a Freep mail or a note and we’ll work through it.
``The woman had left the store after the argument and was out in the parking lot when the male approached her and struck her with a large tuna,'' Robinson said.
has to be a bonafide classic.
That's not completely accurate.
The settlement includes the parent companies, not just WP and LAT.
If you look at the home page and click on the judgment documents, you will find over a hundred sources that must be excerpted.
Admin Moderator,
Please correct me if I misunderstood the Washington Post/LA Times settlement.
Scanned images of the LAT/WP vs Free Republic Settlement docs and Amended Final Judgment.
Sometimes these legalese documents can be difficult to understand, so I appreciate your confirmation.
My post may not have been entirely clear, so thanks for clarifying that. I have the article that Jim Robinson/FR management posted bookmarked on my profile page for reference. On occasions I am not sure if a source is part of the WP/LAT parent company (and hence part of the agreement), so I keep it there to verify on those occasions.Thanks, AM for your link on post #51 as well ! ...
My main point was that if an article is NOT sourced from one of those WP/LAT companies covered in the agreement, then excerpting is unnecessary. It is annoying to me to have to go to another site to read an article when it could have rightfully been posted on the FR post. I think there are a lot of Freepers that feel the same way. Plus, there are some that WON'T read it that would if it's posted in it's entirety here. (I don't mind going to the WP or LAT to read them ... it's the 'law').
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