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To: Stultis
Sorry, newbie here.

The link to The Guardian story no longer works. Does this mean they have retracted the story? And I can't find it at their website.
75 posted on 06/05/2003 5:52:33 AM PDT by sazerac
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To: sazerac
The full text of the Guardian story was posted in another FreeRepublic thread. It's the first link in message #1.
76 posted on 06/05/2003 6:07:27 AM PDT by Stultis
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To: sazerac; Stultis; EggsAckley; Rodney King; seamole
The link to The Guardian story no longer works...And I can't find it at their website.

The link to The Guardian story no longer works...And I can't find it at their website.

This is yet another STUNNING example of why people need to stop posting friggin' EXCERPTS of everything. We only *have* to excerpt articles from LA Times/Washington Post organizations. Yet the new trend appears to be "post one paragraph and link the rest", even when we don't have to, even though it subjects people to extra time and a flood of pop-up windows, even though the linked websites can and do alter and pull stories at will (which leaves us with ten tons of useless articles in the archives).

This has happened more times than I can count. Websites change stuff ALL THE TIME and if posters only link to the articles, there's no record of the change or the original story. Why, they can pull an article and pretend it never existed at all.

This excerpting trend is due to one of two things, IMO-- ignorance of why we're forced to excerpt from certain sources, or sheer laziness (they don't want to format the whole thing). People should post the full text whenever it's possible, or not bother to post.

77 posted on 06/05/2003 6:45:07 AM PDT by hellinahandcart (Stop Unnecessary Excerpting!)
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