How to post articles . . . again

**Krell** · November 17th, 2005, 08:42 PM

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11...te_investment/

The FIRST thing youre going to do, is open a New Thread in the proper forum, and then Copy and Paste the HEADLINE . . . in the the URL ADDRESS BAR on that page! Do it now.

When you see : "Private enterprise needed in space: NASA" in the address hit ctrl X and then PASTE in to the New Thread subject line. This leaves the address blank, and gets rid of the formatting that was in that title.

Now notice the sub lines and author, highlight, copy, paste:

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And 2006's $17bn space budget is approved

By Lucy Sherriff
Published Thursday 17th November 2005 13:29 GMT
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Left click next to the N and highlight the word NASA, dragging the cursor down to the last word on this article - nation."

Ctrl C then Alt tab to your new thread, and click 2 lines below the last entry, PASTE.

hit space bar 3 times, then copy the url at the bottem of the posting.

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And 2006's $17bn space budget is approved

By Lucy Sherriff
Published Thursday 17th November 2005 13:29 GMT

NASA has said commercial investment will prove vital to its future efforts in space exploration. Ex-staffers backed the sentiment, saying NASA has too much on its plate to go it alone. The agency needs to fill a funding black hole of between £3bn and $5bn. It has already cannibalised the research budget of the International Space Station so that its construction can be completed. It also needs to find cash for maintaining missions already in progress, as well as putting man back on the moon and forming a decent plan to get to Mars. The agency's chief administrator Michael Griffin told the American Astronautics Society that private investment in space could be the "dawn of the true space age", Space.com reports. He called on American industry to get involved in developing commercial cargo and crew ships, as well as putting private fuelling stations in low Earth orbit to help with the bid to get manned missions back to the Moon and to Mars. "We want to be able to buy these services from American industry. It will not be government business as usual," he said.
He said that the first proposals from the private sector on space station resupply efforts were expected this year. Former NASA chief of staff Courtney Stadd said that the agency should not confine itself to working with US partners, but should look to international contractors and partnerships as well. He noted: "Any misstep in human spaceflight could spell a very long hiatus in human-driven exploration in the US." In related news, the House and the Senate have just approved NASA's 2006 spending plan, granting the agency $16.5bn - 0.7 percent of the federal budget - for the next fiscal year. Griffin said: "[The budget] will enable continued space shuttle operations and International Space Station assembly; initiate development of the next generation Crew Exploration Vehicle and Crew Launch Vehicle; and support key science and aeronautics programs vital to our nation."

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See how that is crammed up? BAD! bad bad bad

So start finding the last word in each paragraph, then hit space to make a new paragraph.
click - enter, click - enter, click - enter . . . . . till you have reformatted the article.

NASA has said commercial investment will prove vital to its future efforts in space exploration. Ex-staffers backed the sentiment, saying NASA has too much on its plate to go it alone.

The agency needs to fill a funding black hole of between £3bn and $5bn. It has already cannibalised the research budget of the International Space Station so that its construction can be completed. It also needs to find cash for maintaining missions already in progress, as well as putting man back on the moon and forming a decent plan to get to Mars.

The agency's chief administrator Michael Griffin told the American Astronautics Society that private investment in space could be the "dawn of the true space age", Space.com reports.

He called on American industry to get involved in developing commercial cargo and crew ships, as well as putting private fuelling stations in low Earth orbit to help with the bid to get manned missions back to the Moon and to Mars.

"We want to be able to buy these services from American industry. It will not be government business as usual," he said.

He said that the first proposals from the private sector on space station resupply efforts were expected this year.

Former NASA chief of staff Courtney Stadd said that the agency should not confine itself to working with US partners, but should look to international contractors and partnerships as well. He noted: "Any misstep in human spaceflight could spell a very long hiatus in human-driven exploration in the US."

In related news, the House and the Senate have just approved NASA's 2006 spending plan, granting the agency $16.5bn - 0.7 percent of the federal budget - for the next fiscal year.

Griffin said: "[The budget] will enable continued space shuttle operations and International Space Station assembly; initiate development of the next generation Crew Exploration Vehicle and Crew Launch Vehicle; and support key science and aeronautics programs vital to our nation."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11...te_investment/

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This is how easy it is to format a news article etc.

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**The Hunter** · November 17th, 2005, 08:46 PM

In small voice, topic stickied.

**wingnut2600** · November 17th, 2005, 09:53 PM

Personally, I think that posting the whole article is not the best way to post news.

I believe that you should start a thread with an original title based upon the underlying theme of the article posted. From this point, the person posting the article should choose excerpts from the article to incite discussion and thought (giving proper attribution, as Krell showed above).

The excerpts should have a link to the full article, but weave what the reader/poster has gleaned from the article's text into a narrative of why they think it is interesting.

Obviously, there is no point in posting an article in full in the forums; If they should be posted in full, they should be posted in the news section.

A forum article post should be more about your personal opinions added to the article with the intent to spur discussion. Otherwise, posting a news article in its entirety is just a shade away from plagiarism (and actually may be; citing is allowed, but full text replication is a gray area).

Take away points:
1) Quote relevant points from your article and post a link to the entirety.
2) Add your personal spin to cause people to think and engage in dialogue.
3) Wash and repeat.