The first link to Tertill is broken, also the last link is a google search, have you tried duck-duck-go?
The idea is completely sound, they can spray the weeds with vinegar and it will kill the weed while decomposing into carbohydrates which are food for plants, which is why I think you put your remark about anti-chemical alarmists at the beginning since the article talks about herbicides, and I'd remove the other sources and keep the last one(routers), as they are redundant and hardly have any meat to chew on.
GREAT IDEA.
you can make a post TOO!
It is his post...
Your comments sounded like you were an English teacher trying to school him for not writing the post the way you would if you had written it. Now you just seem tight wound and defensive. Hopefully you can be ok letting it go. It's just a post man.