On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 17:08:19 -0400, jayjg <jayjg99(a)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)
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