On 7/10/06, Sarah <slimvirgin(a)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