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As you may know, I was the author of post #2, which also contained the full text of the article.

Aha - as I suspected - post #2 was also a full text. Had I known earlier, I could have saved myself some effort and minor distress.

Your treatment and mine perhaps differed, but less than it seems. I also received separate email (freeper mail), but:

I tend not to mention such w/o permission,
the sender had already interacted with me in a more favorable light on another thread,
the suggestion that I was a thief was only indirect, and
I tend to grant quite a bit of slack to others on such matters, at least until their integrity and good intentions are clear (or clearly absent).

The possibility that WaterDragon has some relationship with the Oregon Magazine crossed my mind as well. Any comments on that, Madam Dragon?

I am an unpaid, occasional contributer to several small publications, not a professional writer. But I'm as likely to post articles from large publications as from smaller ones. I post what I think will interest other Freepers. And always in excerpts. But I'm more likely to post comments on someone else's posts than I am to post an article myself.

Not "doing in Rome as the Romans do" is a lifelong....failing, perhaps, ThePythonicCow! But never from disrespect for the "Romans!"

Maybe you just caught the editor on a bad day, newgeezer! Happens to the best of us! As for articles disappearing, that's a problem, but less so with smaller pubications, usually. Your habit of checking sources is certainly a good one.

This has been an interesting exercise in genuine conservatism. More likely to happen on Free Republic than anywhere else on the net, I've discovered. Both of you are good examples for us all of gracious conservatism.

But NOT for the lefty Democrats! LOL!

Your treatment and mine perhaps differed, but less than it seems. I also received separate email (freeper mail), but: I tend not to mention such w/o permission,

Me, too, definitely. However, in this instance, the intervening circumstances destroyed any semblance of a desire or need to follow protocol.

As for your other points, thanks for the info. This has been a "learning" experience for me, in certain respects. For one thing, I no longer give a whit about whether people post entire articles or excerpts. If ever, it will be a long time before I do my fellow FReepers the favor of re-posting an article for posterity. Instead of doing as the Romans do (did?) here in Rome, I'll just let someone else take that chance. Caveat emptor, folks!

Besides, in the scope of eternity, who cares?! ;-)