Dog3 wrote:

> "Gregory Morrow"
> <gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net> wrote in
> ink.net:
>
> >
> > Matthew Venhaus wrote:
> >
> >> Bob > wrote in message
> >> ...
> >> > Michael wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Very interesting read Leila. Thanks for posting the link. The
> >> > > recipes
> > to
> >> > > the right of the article are also interesting. I liked the pepper
> > fried
> >> > > rice and the penne. The other 2 were great also.
> >> >
> >> > I couldn't get to the recipes without subscribing (which I don't
> >> > want to do). Would you please post them, especially the chicken in
> >> > the pot
> > recipe?
> >> >
> >> For future reference you can use www.bugmenot.com to bypass mandatory
> >> registrations.
> >
> >
> > It's always been my practice to post the whole article (if it's
> > Usenet; on message boards this is sometimes prohibited). It's a PITA
> > when you have to register to read the article and it's a PITA to use
> > bugmenot. Lots of folks will just skip the article, thus diminishing
> > the utility of one's post.
> >
> > On the occasions when I don't post a whole article I will provide a
> > precis of the article for the readers, it's simple common courtesy.
> > Nothing bugs me more than someone simply posting a URL without giving
> > me a reason as to why I should bother to click it on.
> >
>
> Well, I posted 4 recipes which were unrelated to the original article that
> was posted. IMO it is much better to post a snippet of the article and
then
> the link. Either way, it doesn't seem to matter much if you post a link or
> the article. I suppose if the media wants to get bitchy about copyright
> infringement over posting the entire article, we will hear about it
>


Yup...I am still waiting for the _New York Times_ to sue me over articles of
theirs I've copied to Usenet. Often whenever I've done so on other groups
some academic crank - type has to get all on my case about "copyright
infringement" and such ;-)

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Best
Greg