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hummingbird wrote:

Hi, quidnunc...is there a Mark Steyn ping list that you know of?

Pokey78 has the Steyn ping list but he won't use it on my Steyn threads because his nose is out of joint because I excerpt the articles.

His nose isn't out of joint. Speaking for myself, I don't want to be pinged to an excerpted Steyn article, I want to read the whole thing. Most of his list probably feels the same way, so he doesn't ping them to your Steyn posts.

You remind me of the type of kid in class who would race to the blackboard or beg, "teacher, teacher, pick me", the way you race the rest of us to be the first to post a Steyn or a Washington Times or a Victor Davis Hanson article, and you remind me of a sanctimonious phony by insisting on excerpting all of them, even though it has not been determined that that is legally required on this political discussion non-profit board. I bet Steyn and VDH don't even care. Steyn is on Hewitt's show all the time, and Hewitt is a longtime freeper, and they know that we post articles for discussion here. I'm sure they love being read.

We come to Free Republic in part to read the post and the comments in the same place. That's the value of Free Republic, to read good articles and to read the comments by a body of intelligent conservative posters. By adding an additional step or two to the process, you detract from the experience, and reduce the usage of this site. It's getting so Google news will be a better way to go soon, because nothing is more annoying than clicking on an article, and then seeing only a paragraph there.