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Roachboy, on another postboard where I'm a conference host (similar to a mod here) I used to beseech everyone (in order to get to one person in particular) that if they think an article is cogent, post an excerpt from the article and a link, so that people can decide for themselves how much to read and don't get hit with long blocks of text to scroll through. I kept after her for a while but after a bit she got it. What I found is that usually, an article will have one or two or three paragraphs that get almost the entire point across and maybe the entire point, so with just a bit of judgment in terms of how much you excerpt, and with a link, the post becomes much pithier and easier to read, plus it lets your own thoughts shine through.
On a somewhat different subject, I think you're freighting 11/06 with way too much significance, but that's an issue for another day. History has a way of turning that makes fools out of all of us, you know...........
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