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Originally Posted by Janice D. Soderling
Matt asks: How long do things remain on the internet? A long, long time.
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More specifically, it used to be google's cache lasted about 30 days, but that was a while ago, and I wouldn't bet the farm on any number these days.
This comes up in many workshops, but it's a moot issue. Editors don't care. In fact, the opposite may be true: many here have stories of workshopping a poem and having an editor write them and ask "can I have that one for my next issue?"
Remember the old days, when people would carefully write the letter c with a little circle around it before they photocopied their work and handed it around, because they were worried someone might steal their poem? This issue belongs in the same basket. Yes, it might make it easier to defend authorship in court. But when was the last time one actually had to do that?
Best,
Bill
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