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   Paul S Person to jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk   
   Re: Tolkien Censorship at Wikipedia   
   10 Feb 22 08:29:13   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: psperson1@ix.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 20:56:47 +0000 (UTC), Julian Bradfield   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 2022-02-09, Paul S Person  wrote:   
   >>[stuff]   
   >   
   >You were replying to an article which was cancelled minutes after it   
   >was posted (and several hours before you replied). If your usenet   
   >provider doesn't honour authenticated cancellations, that's   
   >unfortunate.   
      
   Ah, making excuses.   
      
   And I'm not sure it is the ISP that is to be blamed, as I am using   
   Eternal September since my prior ISP dropped Usenet and I haven't   
   bothered to see if my new ISP provides it.   
      
   But just keep blaming everyone else. It's working /so/ well for you.   
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