thakur@zerkalo.harvard.edu (Manavendra K. Thakur) (05/09/91)
I just realized that Ian Jarvie's article about classic black and white musicals was sent out to the net with my personal .signature appended at the end of it. This constitutes, of course, a terrible mistake, and I have already apologized to Ian via email. His article did not have a .signature when I received it, and therefore his article should not have had any .signature information when it left my site. (For those wondering, inews appended my personal .signature automatically when I posted the article to the newsgroup. Once I realized my mistake, I immediately deleted my .signature from the article file referenced in our nntp batch queue, but I was too late. By the time I got to it, nntp had already forwarded Ian's article to our newsfeed.) This is the first time such a thing has happened while I've been moderating rec.arts.cinema, and I am of course deeply embarrassed about it. I would like to publicly apologize to Ian for this incident. Please rest assured that I have taken steps to prevent this problem from recurring, and that I certainly did not intend to claim undue credit by affixing my name to another person's work. Manavendra Thakur Moderator, rec.arts.cinema