writes:

Mike, how in the

[expletive deleted]

is anyone going to alter a post to make it appear like
someone else's, when the post is listed as "Sent" by whomever it is that
actually sent it?

The problem is that you *didn't* alter the number
of symbols at the beginning of the line, so it
looks like I wrote something that I didn't. That's why there's
no in front of the "[expletive deleted]" part that I wrote above.

The "art" of making it look like someone else had sent it
would only be evidenced as deviant behavior IF (and I did not) I had also
changed the Header information to look like it had been sent by Jim.

Simply going in and changing what someone else wrote without
changing the symbols is misattribution and one of the very few
things that are almost universally condemned on Usenet. Headers
simply tell what the number of symbols means.

Of course it was all probably just a small mistake but I thought you'd
want to know.

73 de Jim, N2EY

N2EY wrote:
writes:


Mike, how in the


[expletive deleted]


is anyone going to alter a post to make it appear like
someone else's, when the post is listed as "Sent" by whomever it is that
actually sent it?


The problem is that you *didn't* alter the number
of symbols at the beginning of the line, so it
looks like I wrote something that I didn't. That's why there's
no in front of the "[expletive deleted]" part that I wrote above.


The "art" of making it look like someone else had sent it
would only be evidenced as deviant behavior IF (and I did not) I had also
changed the Header information to look like it had been sent by Jim.


Simply going in and changing what someone else wrote without
changing the symbols is misattribution and one of the very few
things that are almost universally condemned on Usenet. Headers
simply tell what the number of symbols means.

Kind of like:

In Unix style commenting, a "" is placed before each line of quoted
text. Add your new text below the relevant quote.

from http://www.magicpub.com/netprimer/netiquette.html


Of course it was all probably just a small mistake but I thought you'd
want to know.


- Mike KB3EIA -

In article , Mike Coslo
writes:

Kind of like:

In Unix style commenting, a "" is placed before each line of quoted
text. Add your new text below the relevant quote.

from http://www.magicpub.com/netprimer/netiquette.html

Mike...the quote-formatting standard originated on ARPANET
when USENET began there. Old stuff. Been there, done that.

It is a common-use standard, not a legal, lawful one.

5 minutes in the penalty box just because...

LHA