On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:38:39 +0100, Peter J Ross <pjr@example.invalid>
wrote in :

>In uk.net.news.config on Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:53:19 +0100, Just zis
>Guy, you know?  wrote:
>
>> Um.  Is it acceptable, in your view, to use public Usenet forums to
>> accuse people of murder and paedophilia?
>
>Yes. It's Usenet. What's written here isn't necessarily true.

What's written in newspapers is not necessarily true. If that is the
criterion then clearly you must believe that it would be acceptable for
you to be falsely accused of serious criminal offences, the kind that
bring a howling mob to your door, on the front page of a national
tabloid.

There is also the point that we are discussing the uk.* hierarchy which
is outside what many people consider to be usenet so assertions about
acceptable behaviour there do not necessarily apply. I would also
suggest that the narrower "big 8" definition of usenet also excludes the
alt.* hierarchy which is the place where baseless accusations and
endless abuse are apparently considered more normal.

>
>> And to have that record there in perpetuity?
>
>Use XNA.

You have my permission to apply XNA to this message if you can.

For those who do not understand XNA, the point is that he can't apply it
to messages other people write pointing out his failure to grasp how
netnews works despite having set himself up as an authority by asserting
what is and is not acceptable in usenet.

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