[Spiff]

I guess this particular article was not the poster child for unnecessary excerpting. Excerpting is running rampant on FR and it is annoying. You'll know how really annoying it is 6 months to a year from now when you want to go back and look at a particular article and find that it was only excerpted and the original article at the publication's website has been removed.

I support GOPUSA and will probably be signing my local Republican Party to use one of their offered services. But I think that GOPUSA should support Free Republic and welcome more than just two paragraphs to be excerpted here. If GOPUSA can ask for special treatment, why can't any other publication? And then, before you know it, FR loses one of its primary features - the permanent archival of articles from various publications along with the comments made about those articles at the time of publication.

So, while I agree that GOPUSA should be supported and that this particular thread was not the best thread to get upset about unnecessary excerpting, I still think the excerpting was unnecessary here and that the entire article should have been posted and that Eberle should have welcomed the entire article to be posted.

[PhiKapMom]

Maybe you should write him and talk to him about it. I figured it was because it was an editorial. I got permission from my paper to post their editorials on here. Figured it was safer to ask.

Personally I only like to excerpt if I have several items on the same thread with articles. Then I always keep a copy incase they are not there in the future.