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To: TimF who wrote (1588)	4/27/2003 7:14:28 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

I used to post links. Now I usually post only the articles, but with the source identified so a reader can look there if desired. The articles I post come mostly from the Washington Post and the Arizona Star, which are the two newspapers I read daily. Writers for the Post will get paid the same no matter what I do. They get paid primarily based on advertising in the dead-tree version. If you want to find, for example, a Howard Kurtz column I've posted, you would have no trouble at all locating it even though I have not provided a link. Just go to the Post and search on "Kurtz." I recognize, however, that there may be some loss of revenue to the publisher from what I do. Writers for the Star also get paid no matter what I do. In the case of the Star, the publisher does not lose revenue, however, because the Star's links are such that they expire at the end of the day, so, if I post a link in the evening and you don't see it until morning, you can't find the article. It seems to me that, if the Star cared about getting traffic on its site, it would handle its links differently--not make them so perishable. Ergo, I have to assume that it doesn't care if I don't send traffic its way. And if the Star doesn't care, then maybe the Post doesn't either. After all, they have the same economic model, more or less. In which case, it's pretty much no harm, no foul, IMO. As for being technically illegal, it has always been legal to quote from a source as long as you provide attribution.