Re: A New Year's Resolution for Garden Writers

**Pat Meadows p*@meadows.pair.com**

On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 09:21:22 -0500, you wrote:

>Sorry to be pedantic, Lorraine, at this holiday season, but pasting 
>in such a long extract of this article is almost certainly an 
>infringement of the NYT's copyright and could get our estimable list 
>owner into trouble. I know it annoys me when people post most of one 
>of my articles into mailing list postings rather than simply give a 
>link, so I expect the NYT would be annoyed too if they find out. It's 
>an interesting piece, but can you just post the link instead?
>
>Just trying to be fair to writers and publishers...
>

Or you can write the author or publisher and ask permission.
I've done that several times, and they always say yes (so
far).  

I think, though, that including a brief excerpt from the
article (first paragraph usually), plus the link, is more
desirable on a mailing list in any case.

Pat
-- Northern Pennsylvania
"The people can always be brought to the bidding of their 
leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they 
are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack 
of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works 
the same in any country."  Hermann Goering, Nuremberg Trials
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