Hello Bob,   
      
   BOB KLAHN -> MATT MUNSON presented the following explanation :   
      
   BK>The Debate echo has a rule against posting full articles. Only   
   BK>when a short excerpt would be as long as the full article would   
   BK>that be allowed.   
      
   BK>Post an excerpt and a link.   
      
   Rules clarification -   
      
   What Matt posted was not an article, but a commentary on an article   
   posted on the WSJ web site.  I am not sure if it is even possible to   
   give a specific url or link that participants could go to in order to   
   read that commentary, as there may be literally thousands of different   
   commentaries to a specific article.   
      
   Matt was addressing the subject matter rather than the article,   
   having found a commentary that he felt most relevant since it was   
   from an employee's perspective.  Or former employee's perspective,   
   as the case may be.   
      
   There are always (or should be) gray areas in moderator's rules.   
   As well as exceptions.  What qualifies as an article?  How long of   
   an excerpt would you, as moderator, consider as being excessive?   
   And in what cases, if any, are there where content matter is more   
   important than length?   
      
   Noam Chomsky allows book excerpts up to eight chapters per book   
   to be posted online.  If two people were to get together they could   
   post an entire book by Noam Chomsky without being in violation of   
   copyright law.  Imagine that.  Hundreds of pages uploaded to a   
   fidonet echo, made available for all to read.  It has been done   
   before.  Make that thousands of pages, if multiple books are   
   posted.  And that is just Noam Chomsky's books.  No telling how   
   many pages and books could be uploaded if somebody were to stumble   
   onto the Internet Public Library ...   
      
   --Lee   
      
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