Well, I never said it was a big deal, just a made an offhand comment calling a duck a duck and I get shouted down by the self-assayed purveyors of morality here and now and for all time. Yet did you ever consult the wikipedia entry for plagiarism?

From Wikipedia:
"Self-plagiarism (also known as "recycling fraud"[25]) is the reuse of significant, identical, or nearly identical portions of one's own work without acknowledging that one is doing so or without citing the original work. Articles of this nature are often referred to as duplicate or multiple publication. In addition there can be a copyright issue if copyright of the prior work has been transferred to another entity. Typically, self-plagiarism is only considered a serious ethical issue in settings where someone asserts that a publication consist of new material, such as in publishing or factual documentation.[26] It does not apply to public-interest texts, such as social, professional, and cultural opinions usually published in newspapers and magazines."


HAving said all that, I am glad that we are getting new information on the CNFR trackage fee issue and not just the hysterical quasi-journalistic verbosities of the resident plagiarist plagiarist pharisee.