Agree and disagree

Post #115,533 by lincoln 8/27/03 10:21:19 AM Reply	Agree and disagree Too many newspaper stories become unavailable within 24 hours, so while an excerpt should entice you to go to the full article, if you don't do so immediately, you can't do it from the next day forward. So if a community member is on vacation for several days, comes here, reads the excerpt and clicks on the link, the odds are that they won't be able to read the full story. lincoln "If you're on your deathbed and you haven't got a story to tell, then you haven't lived. - Asa Baber" [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/resume.htm\|VB/SQL resume] [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/tandem_resume.htm\|Tandem resume] [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #115,576 by pwhysall 8/27/03 3:56:08 PM Reply	No It's not a matter of opinion. Cut'n'paste of entire stories is copyright violation, and could get us shut down. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #115,661 by lincoln 8/28/03 8:16:26 AM Reply	I didn't say that it was a matter of opinion I was pointing out the temporary nature of information of the Internet. What good is trying to make a point or pass on information when the source, the foundation of your viewpoint, disappears within 24 hours? For example, good luck trying to find a detailed story of President Shrub's ducking out of his Texas Air Guard's last year of service, instead of fulfilling his obligation. Should be an easy find on the Internet, right? That's a story worth reading again and again - too bad it's no longer available. And for the record, I did not disagree with Scott and will abide by his request for all of the right reasons. lincoln "If you're on your deathbed and you haven't got a story to tell, then you haven't lived. - Asa Baber" [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/resume.htm\|VB/SQL resume] [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/tandem_resume.htm\|Tandem resume] [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #115,662 by Another Scott 8/28/03 8:30:24 AM Reply	Shrub's Texas Air days. Although I've been guilty of posting too-large bits of stories, I try to only post excerpts. If a story disappears into the ether, well someone really interested will have to pay for the archive or search the hard copy. The vast majority of news stories are cached at news.google.com (.e.g. [link\|http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&q=Bush+Texas+Air+National+Guard&btnG=Search+News\|Bush Texas Air National Guard] search) for quite a while. [link\|http://monthly-messenger.org/Library/Bush_Military/Main.htm\|Story with links] on Bush's Texas Air National Guard days. (Found by searching news.google.com using a URL from Dan Gillmor's [link\|http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001268.shtml#001268\|August 10 column]). Cheers, Scott.

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