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Great analysis. Thanks so much for these helpful tools. I'll be letting my blog readers know and giving your link.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I included you in a post that will run on my other blog JoanSlingsWords.com on 12/17. Keep up the good work. Joan

Excellent article. I certainly know quite a bit more now about this complex issue. Thanks, Jonathan.

Hey, Jonathan! All great articles. I'm creating a short blog for tomorrow to direct everyone over here to get educated. Travel safe and soak up lots of good info for us.

Is it possible that sheer numbers play a part in being selected for scraping? I mean there are probably many more free blogs than otherwise.

Hi, Jonathan. I linked to your blogs so readers could click to read what you wrote and get the draft letter straight from your blog. Performancing is up today. Sling Words blog scheduled for Friday.

Jonathan, thanks for the draft letter. I'll post a link on both my blogs to it. Draft letters are always good because many people won't write even though they think the issue is important. A draft makes it easy for them to have their voice heard. Keep fighting the good fight.

A central repository sounds like a good idea, in theory, but reality is usually far-removed from theory. The fact that it would require a lot of user participation is probably why it won't fly. I'm like most authors in that I abhor the idea of someone scraping my prose or stealing it outright, but how I'd find time to add another task to my daily duties is the problem. I'm over-scheduled as it is, and I suspect I'm not alone in that.

So this may be a great opportunity for someone to start this repository and for a moderate subscriber fee do the checking for those who subscribe.