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George wrote:

> It would be nice if a mailing list such as ours offered a way to draw
> attention to an acknowledged mistake, after it has appeared. Not to allow a
> posting to be amended after the event, which could be dangerous tinkering
> with history, and never-ending. Instead, to allow the original contributor
> (and nobody else)  to retrospectively add a tag which means, in effect- "the
> writer of this posting asks you to read it in context with later message
> number [xxxx] which will modify it in some way". I fear that I would use it
> often.

LOL. The famed "unsend" key!  And wouldn't it be dandy if print and
broadcast media that made a typo--or worse yet a fact-checking error (which
I have been guilty of on the list, as well as a major US of A network some
years ago)--could recall and reissue the publication instead of burying the
retraction of their mistake somewhere in the dark corners of the
publication? 

One of the downsides of a group such as ours is the lack of professional
proof readers and fact checkers. The author is naked.  On the upside, we can
express an international smorgasbord of knowledge and opinions in almost
real time.  If someone is interested in a topic discussed days, months, or
years ago Robert and Frank have made that information available.  Like a
prudent navigator using all available data, I would hope one would read and
consider the entire thread/topic instead of taking one post as gospel and
note any errata posted.

In my mind it is as simple as following up a post with a factual/non-fatal
grammatical error with a "PS" or "Error" message. Addressing the "If wishes
were fishes, our nets would all be full" portion of your posting, I too
abhor revisionist history, and such a feature would be handy. And if you can
imagine it, it can probably be done.  Perhaps not tomorrow ;-)

Bill B.






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