jdickson@zook.Jpl.Nasa.GOV (Jeff Dickson) (08/28/87)
> The right to express one's opinions are not in question--it's the proporting >them as fact which is being called into question here. There is a spectrum >of experience in the readership of this newsgroup. Many of us are able to >dicern fact from opinion, but not all of us. Expressing misconceptions and >heresay as fact, without any disclaimers on its accuracy, is a disservice to >this community. I think that the bulk of the readership of this newsgroup relies on the spectrum of experience to help us dicern for ourselves whether the original poster expressed fact, opinion, or heresay. As far as I am concerned, there are no gods in this newsgroup - just people who feel strongly enough about their positions to express so. I learn from their mistakes as they learn from mine. Isn't that the whole idea in the first place? If none of us cared to learn from our own insidious mistakes, then why post publically at all? Jeff S. Dickson | jdickson@zook.jpl.nasa.gov "The only thing I know, is that I know nothing" - Socratis