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   From: thewitcher@outlook.com   
      
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   Hastings  wrote:   
   >   
   > On 13 Aug 2021, Mark Shaw  posted some   
   > news:sf7eql$5gr$1@reader1.panix.com:   
   >   
   > > Jay Furr  wrote:   
   > >   
   > > [reformatted for linefeeds]   
   > >   
   > >> I know that alt.folklore.urban is essentially dead, but that said,   
   > >> is anyone out there?   
   > >   
   > > Yep, a few of us.   
   > >   
   > >> I got emails today from the staff at snopes.com informing me that   
   > >> snopes himself has gotten in major hot water for plagiarizing lots   
   > >> and lots of news stories and not giving credit, and that he's been   
   > >> suspended from all creative access to the site.   
   > >   
   > >> I'm surprised and disappointed.  I was wondering if others had any   
   > >> more profound or interesting reactions.   
   > >   
   > > It's been in the news. I'm also a bit surprised, but it is what it   
   > > is.   
   > >   
   > > The downside is that, despite the (somewhat deserved) popular   
   > > perception of bias on the part of snopes.com, they've been pretty   
   > > well consistently a gold-plated source for details one can cite to   
   > > combat {d|m}isinformation.  This event will damage their credibility   
   > > in the eyes of many. This is a pretty bad thing, in that it will   
   > > introduce even more friction in the machinery of internet discourse.   
   >   
   > Indeed it has.   
   >   
   > From: Nadegda    
   > Message-ID:    
   > Injection-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 01:37:08 -0000 (UTC)   
   >   
   > "I searched Snopes high and low for any reference to this and found   
   > nothing."   
   >   
   > That isn't proof, kook.   
   >   
   > From: Nadegda    
   > Message-ID:    
   > Injection-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 20:01:22 -0000 (UTC)   
   >   
   > >> SMH...  snopes is run by former usenet trolls.   
   > >   
   > > Proof, kook?   
   >   
   > Rookie troll Nadegda's lack of Usenet historical knowledge and inability   
   > to use Bing or google noted and recorded.   
   >   
   > In 1994 David and Barbara Mikkelson created Urban Legends Reference Pages,   
   > an urban folklore website that was later renamed Snopes.com.   
   >   
   > David Mikkelson had originally adopted the username "Snopes" (the name of   
   > a family of often unpleasant people in the works of William Faulkner) as a   
   > username in the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban.   
      
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