• Anything ‘published’ on the web is viewed as intellectual property and, regardless of whether it displays a copyright symbol or not, is therefore copyrighted by the originator. The only exception to this is if there is a “free and unrestricted reuse” statement associated with the work.

    In order to protect our members and TFL from possible litigation, all members must abide by the following new rules:

    1. Copying and pasting entire articles from another site to TFL is strictly prohibited. The same applies to articles from print or other media, and to posting photographs taken of copyrighted pages or other media.

    2. Copyright law provides for “fair use” of portions of a copyrighted work. You can copy no more than a SINGLE paragraph from the article to your post (3 or 4 sentences at most).

    3. You must provide a link to the article along with the name of website. For example: ww.xxx.yyy/zzz (The Lower Thumbsuck Daily News).

    4. You must provide, in your own words, a brief summary of the article AND your reasons for believing it will be of interest to TFL members. Failure to do so may result in the thread being closed or your post being deleted as a “cut and paste drive by.”

    5. Photographs and other images are also copyrighted. "Hotlinking" of images (so that it appears in your message) from other sites is also prohibited unless you own rights to the image. If you wish to share an image, provide a clickable link to it.

    Posts that do not follow these new guidelines will be altered or deleted by staff. Members who continue to violate this policy may lose their posting privileges at TFL.

    Thank you for your cooperation and your participation in TFL, the leading online forum for firearms enthusiasts.

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Timothy

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Is there a method by which the "message" can be done offline in 'word' or ' write' and then pasted in a "new post"?
The reason I ask is, AOL frequently cuts me of in the middle of writing the message and I must start all over again!
 
In a word, "Yes."

I often compose my posts in Word, run 'em through the spell check (always a good idea) then copy and paste them into the TFL window.

If you're not sure how to do that, look under your "Edit" menu.

First highlight the text in Word, select "Copy" from the "Edit" menu, click onto your browser and look for the cursor in the TFL text window. Then you just select "paste" from the "Edit" menu and your words should appear.

Hope this helps. :)
 
You can use shortcut keys instead of the Edit Menu in Windows.

To Copy use: Ctrl + C or Ctrl + Insert
To Paste use: Ctrl + V or Shift + Insert

Shortcut keys seem faster to me, once you get used to them.
 
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