[Jim Robinson]

Our system will handle it fine. There will always be some publications that don't mind our posting full text so we have to be able to accomodate both. In fact, we have some sites and authors that love to have their stuff posted to FR. We also have sites and authors that get pissed if we DON'T allow their stuff to get posted, LOL.

[Piranha]

I would think that most self-respecting writers (whether they write for the NY Times or a weblog) would love to have their articles quoted in full on Free Republic. It probably is the publishers and business offices who are taking issue with the cutting and pasting.

I don't blame them. I used to be a newspaper addict until the Wall Street Journal pointed me to Free Republic after the Space Shuttle disaster. Since then I have let all (but one) of my newspaper subscriptions lapse and I am on Free Republic for hours each day. You are the best, and you are the future of news assimilation.