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To: Bobby777

It links the article for me. Is the link not working for you?


3 posted on 09/06/2004 1:19:15 PM PDT by Zyke (Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you are saying. -Emerson)
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To: Zyke

the link is not in question. Normally at FR, if we post an article we post the full article, except if it's on the excerpt list.

fwiw


6 posted on 09/06/2004 1:20:52 PM PDT by Bobby777
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To: Zyke

It makes it very difficult to retrieve an article/thread down the road, when only an excerpt has been posted. Unless a source is on the excerpt-only list, please post the whole thing. Many fascinating and important threads on FR have incorporated links to earlier (sometimes YEARS earlier) FR postings on the same subject, raising participants knowledge of the long term aspects of the subject, and thus greatly raising the level of discourse. This doesn't work well if the postings contain only an excerpt and link, since most news article links go dead or archive-subscription-only after a very short time.


21 posted on 09/06/2004 2:16:41 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker (Donate to the Swift Vets -- www.swiftvets.com)
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