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From: amlovell@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony M Lovell)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,misc.legal,alt.flame
Subject: Re: The lawsuit of the year!
Summary: Did your name lie down in front of a train, Jef?
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Date: 30 Jan 88 15:29:43 GMT
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In article <5099@well.UUCP>, pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) writes:
> In the referenced message, mayville@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Kevin J. Mayville) wrote:
> }If he did not announce considerably in advance that he was planning on
> }lying down on the track with some friends, then he's crazy.
> 
> But he did announce it in advance.  As you would know if you had read
> even one newspaper article on the subject.  Hey, I've got an idea: since
> you don't know what you are talking about, why don't you shut up?
> ---
> Jef

   OK.  This is perhaps an extreme example of having missed a basic
element of the story, Jef, but need you have said anything beyond what
you said in your first sentence which set things straight?  Are we to
limit this discussion to those who can claim support from trendy
bibliographies of 1000's of pages?  To those who have friends,
relatives, or pets who were crushed by streetcars in the streets of
Managua?  These "experts" still make their share of factual mistakes,
but it's unfair to tell them to shut up.  Issue a correction.
   If you tell them to shut up, just don't ever make a factual error
yourself.

amlovell@phoenix.princeton.edu

PS:  Also note the conditional phrasing of the offending text.