Jim, I’d like to point out something else as well. Posting the full text on FreeRepublic can raise the article’s visibility across all search engines as well, drawing even more reader’s to the bloggers work. And of course, the bigger the article, the more words to catch search engine traffic with.
Frequently, I’ll find a search engine reference to a post on FreeRepublic before the search engine has even indexed the article on the original site.
Great point!