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From: jsb@panix.UUCP (J. S. B'ach)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: A SERIOUS DILEMMA, etc. (was: Re: forgery (was Re: Important announcement))
Summary: #include "disclaimer.h"
Message-ID: <248@panix.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 89 17:13:49 GMT
References: <6037@tank.uchicago.edu> <21593@gryphon.COM> <212@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <36049@apple.Apple.COM> <1303@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> <245@panix.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsb@panix.UUCP (J. S. B'ach)
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In article <245@panix.UUCP> gcf@panix.UUCP (Gordon Fitch) writes:
)Obviously, the only way to solve the problem _meaningfully_ is
)to insist that _all_ articles be forged.  There would then never
)be a question of whether someone really said something or not, as
)if anyone cared.
)
)And since the forgeries are generally of a higher quality than
)the average article, the quality of the net would be immeasurably
)improved.

Most articles are already forged.  Ever since presidents began hiring speech
writers, the 'author' of an article has been just a character string to use as an
organizing principle by the reader or kill file.  It usually is a more accurate
categorizer than the (so-called) subject and often more so than the newsgroup
to which the article is posted.  Besides, Buddhism teaches us that the ego is
an illusion.  I certainly had nothing to do with writing any of the above.
-- 
		cmcl2!panix!jsb (jim) 	
"Don't worry, be Abbie.  Have a nice death."
		--Paul Krasner's advice to the late Abbie Hoffman