If I can butt in here...(boy, THERE'S something new)
I don't think Robert was really trying to pull anything sneaky. It was obvious that the two extensive posts were cut-and-pasted from somewhere else unless Robert had suddenly massively overdosed on espresso. That being said, I agree that some form of attribution (preferably with link) should have been included. Robert is not the only one here who sometimes drops extensive quoted text in without telling us where they come from. Again, I don't think anyone is claiming the text as their own, but it's still nice to get the source.