[commish]

At least they were nice about it, and didn't come bashing your door down with lawyers.

I personally don't have a problem posting excerpts. It might be time to consider just making it FR policy that any copyrighted material must be posted as an excerpt unless the author gives consent.

[Drango]

commish> I personally don't have a problem posting excerpts.
Condor51> Which btw is not a bad thing IMO

I'm guessing both of you have high speed and don't need to connect to the link at 28K?

[Glenn]

It might be time to consider just making it FR policy that any copyrighted material must be posted as an excerpt unless the author gives consent.

Or create a managed URL list. Spider the supplied URL to find the posted text for verification so the DU trolls don't sandbag us.

And whatever happened to the proposal of comparing supplied URL's with existing posts to prevent duplicates? It was a fine idea.

While I am critiquing the world:

How about an option to turn off everything fundraiser after an ID has made a donation?

I just know John can do all that in quick time.

[Revel]

The day FR no longer posts any full text articles...It will not be FR anymore...Just a chat room. Excerpts are not much use for research purposes. One of the real reasons why FR is so valuable is that the material is always there. No one can hide the truth. There is so much information posted here that could never be found again anywhere else. That includes the original source in many cases.

[StriperSniper]

At least they were nice about it,

Yes, that stopped me from making comments about bones and fudge, and smuggling and packing. ;-)