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You might have entered it, Richard, but others responding to it in a "closed" conference (in this sense) should be able to feel secure that it's not going to be linked elsewhere; and IMO they shouldn't even have to worry about whether that header, now scrolled 8 responses off the screen, said "linked item". I oppose having *any* conferences closed to anonymous reading, myself, but if we're going to do it, and do it for the kinds of reasons people have raised for doing it, it's really obnoxious to think of requiring participants to keep track on an item-by-item basis. It's not "your own item" in a sense that gives you an unlimited right to handle *other* people's responses. May I suggest that you learn to use the extract command, or cut-&-paste at your end, if you object to typing your own text in? I really doubt anyone else would object to your copying your own text - at least, object on the grounds that it was first posted in a restricted conference.
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