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From: laura@l5.uucp (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Did you have to post this?
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Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 06:21:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 10 06:21:52 1985
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Over in net.religion we have this little problem. Person A says something.
Then person B misquotes person A and refutes his misquotation. Person A
says ``I never said that!''. Then person C quotes person A and refutes him.
Person A says ``I never said that!''. Now persons B and C both say ``yes you
did!'' ``Did not!'' ``Did!''...

Fairly early on I got into the habit of quoting exactly what was said by
anyone with whom I was arguing so that nobody could deny sayign what they
*had* said. I think that some of the quotes could be cut down, though and
maybe it is better to post 5 refutations of parts of one article than one
huge one.


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