slimvirgin@gmail.com (slimvirgin@gmail.com) [050507 09:33]:
The anonymous posters on Usenet are not published authors just because they post to Usenet. So yes, any editor who wanted to delete material sourced to Usenet would be well within their rights - except where it's being used as a primary source about itself.
Although in practice, this would be disruption to make a point. Why are you hardly being agreed with?
- d.