you were fine, but just link to those long ones with a brief description proceeding if you can.  We don't want to have to put in comment length limits...(and that's not just you, Bob...).

Bob,

I, too, would like to see you use links to the articles that you quote.

For example, your post above could have simply included:

"Jay Hansen summarises the die-off argument in the article WHY THE HUMAN POPULATION OF EARTH WILL DIEOFF

There are several reasons for this:

1. Including the whole article is a waste of internet bandwidth because you are duplicating the content
   
2. If you condense it without a link, then I can't go and look at the full article (ala the REFERENCES above)
   
3. The link adds authenticity to your quote (you may have made up the entire quote and put Jay Hansen's name at the top)
   
4. I may not be even slightly interested in what Jay Hansen has to say

In fact, I went looking for the article you quote and could not find it on dieoff.org, so I am already suspicious of it's source.  I did find the article on oilcrash.com (hence my link above).

I'm sorry if I'm sounding critical, it's just there's such a lot to read on TOD, and I don't want to have to scroll past large amounts of irrelevant material (which is found elsewhere) that I'm not really interested in.

I do hope you keep posting, because everyone has something to contribute.  Just let us go off and read your quoted articles at the source.