Don,

We (in a discussion on the Community board) hammered out some conventions for the use of quoted material in posts. Please check out the resulting guidelines. The general things to note are:

Use a bit less of the material than you used; don't copy-and-paste an entire article. Better to excerpt a pithy paragraph or two that you think really makes the point. Let the reader choose to go read the entire piece if he/she is interested.

Enclose the quote in <BLOCKQUOTE> tags to signal that it's not your writing. Add an attribution below it using the <CITE> tags, including a link to the source (which you'd want to do anyway if you don't copy-and-paste the entire thing).

Personally, I appreciate very much the way that people constantly bring interesting material to my attention in quotes and links in posts. We just want to show a little respect for copyrights and intellectual property.

Thanks,

--Robert