The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #106453 Message #2199169
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
21-Nov-07 - 09:23 AM
Thread Name: BS: Long Posts in Newspaper Threads
Subject: RE: BS: Long Posts in Newspaper Threads
Most times articles will be available in their original place for long enough for the purposes of this kind of discussion. And often they they will be archived. Including a quote from the article in question with a link both provides a taster of what it's all about and provides a handle for tracing the article itself if it's moved, using a search engine.
There will be occasions where a longish cut and paste might be appropriate, but not that many. It shouldn't often happen that a bunch of them will turn up in close succession.
An alternative way of pushing the count up where a long cut and paste is felt to be necessary would be to break this up into a couple of posts, and publish them one after the other - part 1, part 2...