Golias - permit me a question. Can you share with us which print journals it was that would not accept your work because it had appeared here? As far as I know, only Poetry takes this approach, and they don't inform people that they googled and found something on the net - they just spit out the usual rejection slip. If there are others with this approach, I would appreciate some advance warning.
Is it possible that you forced the issue by going out of your way in the submission to indicate that the poem had been posted on the net? And that possibly you were not clear as to whether the poem was in a workshop with a short life span, or posted for general reading in a journal? It just sounds strange that you seem to be the only one who had this experience, so I'm curious as to the background.
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