If this is some kind of plebescite, then I also cast my vote very strongly with Patrick, for the inclusion in most cases of full text of an article rather than just an url. Frankly, sending mere urls are a waste of good comrades' time, and I agree that this is much more a problem for comrades outside the imperialist centres, though it probably also is for poorer or less tech-savvy comrades even there.
Obviously that needs to be reinforced with emphasis on other protocols, ie, always including an url with the text, always clipping most of the text of the article you're replying to, and, conversely, RETAINING the small part of the text you are replying to so that readers can make sense of discussions. Several regular posters here do not do the latter, and so except for anyone reading every post, some of their "replies" to nothing apparently look like sheer nonsense. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ambrose Andrews" <ambrose-b...@vrvl.net> To: "Michael Karadjis" <mkarad...@theplanet.net.au> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 1:03 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] Long posts not allowed?? > Patrick Bond wrote: >> I'm voting, as usual, for full posting of articles - copyrights be >> damned. I agree, generally the burden of requiring *interactive* getting (by web) of things in the context of poor connectivity is greater than the burden of getting a large amount of redundant, but easily ignored plain text, even in that same context. ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
