On 5/5/05, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote: Our policy states that our secondary sources must be credible, reputable, and in some way authoritative: see, for example, WP:NOR. It's admittedly hard to define these terms, but Usenet doesn't count as any of those by any standard, not least because the posts are largely anonymous.
This is very true. There are Sherilyn posts on Google Groups that even I have to look at closely before I can tell if it was I or one of many impostors who wrote them.