On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 17:08:19 -0400, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
Letters to the editor are checked for authenticity by the newspapers printing them; in fact, the fundamental thing making a source reliable is fact-checking. Usenet posts do not have fact-checkers.
I have a friend who is one of several people who have had letters published under their name and address but which they did not write, and which caricatured their well-known views to cast them in a bad light.
Guy (JzG)