Re: Tora Tora Tora To Ya

That's freaking hilarious considering your inane attribution
policy (namely, not to include one).

Blame assignment (attribution) lines shouldn't be used unless you're
sure you are blaming the correct person (few articles are digitally
signed). From: lines are trivially easy to forge, to the point
that you can't be sure that all articles not posted by you aren't
posted by a single other person who never uses his real name.

Could you, perhaps, insert the following attribution line?

That's still potential slander/libel if it assigns blame to the
wrong person when the person inserting it (that would be me) knows
the From: line is meaningless.

And it still won't tell you who said what. It isn't that uncommon
to have two different posters named in attribution lines in a posting
to both say that they didn't say the same objectionable words in
that posting. Obviously the "who wrote what" gets misinterpreted.

"Someone claiming to be $(FROM) wrote: "

People rarely claim who they are in a posting (From: lines don't
count. If you place a meaningless turd there, it doesn't mean
you're that turd.)

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