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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (2748)	11/6/2007 10:55:44 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I agree on the citing for ethical and potentially legal reasons (although your still violating copyright if you copy an article and put a link at the end). But I don't think it matters to much who makes the argument unless its an argument from authority. The validity of an argument doesn't depend on who makes it. OTOH its rare that the quoted point will be purely argument, its likely to be fact and argument, and the source of the facts are important because essentially you are being asked to accept them by an argument from authority (something like an implied "I have this quote saying fact X and fact Y so they must be true", or at least "so they are likely to be true", or "you have to respond to these facts, and if you can't refute them you should accept that they are true") And the specific post in question does indeed make claims of fact.