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From: military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Trouble with attributions
Message-ID: <3428@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 Jan 89 03:09:46 GMT
Reply-To: military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Approved: military@att.att.com

Argh !

Okay, today I was very careful... every article I posted had a
"From:" line reflecting the original author.  Nonetheless,
two of the 23 postings ignored this line and instead attributed
the article to me.

I will try to find out why Pnews insists on doing this.  In the 
interim, to avoid any confusion, let me suggest a couple simple
rules:

1)  All those submitting articles please, PLEASE, include a signature
at the end.  If you don't want to use a .signature file (or can't),
at least write your name at the end.  This will allow some identification
should the article be misattributed.

2) If I have written an article, you can be sure it will end with my
.signature.  If it doesn't, I didn't write the article, despite the
header.



Hopefully, this will avoid future confusion.



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Bill Thacker      moderator, sci.military      military@att.att.com

"War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life
or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be 
thoroughly studied."   -  Sun Tzu