Mark Kent wrote:
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> > __/ [ cc ] on Sunday 10 December 2006 16:35 \__
> >
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> >> It's not that I don't like them. "PS3 has begun shipping with Linux
> >> Pre-installed" is just an out and out lie for instance. Many times the
> >> subject is just misleading, and well, since I don't know for sure I
> >> guess we'll have to let those slide. But I find it hard to believe that
> >> on the ones that are completely wrong that you don't know what you are
> >> doing. Why isn't the subject of the [News] posts the title of the
> >> article you're quoting anyway?
> >
> > I will admit that I was wrong on the PS3 shipping thing, but it was /NOT/
> > deliberate. I am sometimes in a hurry and I can't read everything
> > thoroughly. As I said before, it is easy to find flaws somewhere in a big
> > pool of messages. I am not trying to noisify in order to use a nitpicking
> > argument. I just think that these stories ought to be filed and documented
> > properly. PJ's research, for example, greatly benefits from all these
> > lobbying and bribery stories, which she often puts among the News Picks.
> >
>
> Roy - do not worry about your titles, and please do /not/ change them,
> you're doing the right thing. The assertion that every News posting
> must be perfect is insane - sometimes mistakes happen, and frankly,
> probably 99% of what's on the net is untrue anyway, and certainly, the
> likes of 'cc' post untruths continuously in this group, so are hardly
> in a position to determine appropriate material.
Kindly point out one untruth. Mistakes do happen, so why post them
twice, and once without any discussion at all?
> Of course cc and others look for flaws - it's what they're paid to do.
> Let them do it - if they want to post a correction *they can*.
I'm getting paid to post here? [News] to me. If I could get paid to
post I'd be posting as often as Roy...
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