On 7/10/06, Sarah slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
The policy is based on common sense, not dogma. When you send a letter to a newspaper for publication, you're expected to supply your name, address, and telephone number so that someone from the newspaper can check that you really did send it.
The processes used or not used vary nationally and internationally and on a case-by-case basis, and even large papers do not necessarily follow reliable processes.
Nothing like that exists for Usenet. It's all very well to say that if X didn't write the post, and we quote from it, X will tell us soon enough.
That is not the argument I made.
Erik