"Drop a hard _J_"

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> my central point that the
> messages in forums like outoftime.stereokiller.com have unreliable
> date stamps because the data is sometimes retroactively modified.

I totally understood that to be your meaning. What I didn't understand
is how that could be relevant to my post, unless you assumed that I
was claiming that the instance that I cited was one that I believed to
be accurate. I didn't make that assumption at all.

I'd considered adding something like, "Make of this what you will" or
"Accept at your own risk" or some such, but it didn't seem to me that
anything like that was necessary. Nobody could *possibly* assume that
there was any conclusion to be drawn from that cite. For example, even
assuming the correctness of the date, given that there's no context,
how could anyone know what was in the writer's mind, when he wrote
that? Any resemblance could be purely coincidental.

That's clear, even to me.

Of course, a trivially-easy way to have avoided all this would have
been not to have personalized your post by using, as its first word,

"Wilson"

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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