[Imc-sydney] Outdated posts

Thu Mar 13 22:28:30 UTC 2008

The point is that it makes no sense having postings of archaeological 
currency as if they were about things happening now. Because they are 
confusing at best, annoying at worst they should be wiped as soon as they 
pop up. Am I allowed to do that or do I need to ask the group? What's our 
procedure? Diet

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>   1. Misleading tense (diet simon)
>   2. Re: Misleading tense (Andrew McNaughton)
>   3. someone explain, please (diet simon)
>   4. Re: someone explain, please (Andrew McNaughton)
>   5. Re: someone explain, please (ned haughton)
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> From: "diet simon" <diet_simon at bigpond.com>
> Subject: [Imc-sydney] Misleading tense
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> I think "Protesters cause disruptions ahead of G20 summit" at 
> http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/43520#new should be removed because it 
> is apparently an unchanged reposting of something originally posted on 
> November 17th, 2006 by Parrot Press (not verified). It says "Police say 
> G20 protesters caused disruptions at 14 banks and businesses in 
> Melbourne's CBD today.", which is badly misleading. Diet
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> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:30:36 +1300
> From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew at scoop.co.nz>
> Subject: Re: [Imc-sydney] Misleading tense
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> The article you link looks to be published on 17 November 2006.  Where's
> the other article?  were two published on the same day?  If so,  that
> might want fixing, but it's not a tense problem.  Or is there a more
> recent article with this same content?
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> Andrew
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> diet simon wrote:
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>> I think "Protesters cause disruptions ahead of G20 summit" at
>> http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/43520#new should be removed
>> because it is apparently an unchanged reposting of something
>> originally posted on November 17th, 2006 by Parrot Press (not
>> verified). It says "Police say G20 protesters caused disruptions at 14
>> banks and businesses in Melbourne's CBD *today.",* which is badly
>> misleading. Diet
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> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:34:20 +1000
> From: "diet simon" <diet_simon at bigpond.com>
> Subject: [Imc-sydney] someone explain, please
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> Office Occupation at Oricas Head Office in Melbourne
>  a.. View
>  b.. Edit
> Posted November 17th, 2006 by Anonymous
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> Can someone please explain why this is posted with this date?
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> Diet
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> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:06:29 +1300
> From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew at scoop.co.nz>
> Subject: Re: [Imc-sydney] someone explain, please
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> I don't know anything about the event or when it actually happened, but
> it looks like it was published on that date on indy sites across the
> world.  Also the node id on sydney indy is consistent with the story
> having been published on that date.
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> Andrew
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> diet simon wrote:
>> Please note: this list is archived and searchable via the web.
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>>   Office Occupation at Oricas Head Office in Melbourne
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>>     * View <http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/43520>
>>     * Edit <http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/43520/edit>
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>> Posted November 17th, 2006 by Anonymous
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>> Can someone please explain why this is posted with this date?
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>> Diet
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> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:00:43 +1100
> From: ned haughton <naughteco1 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Imc-sydney] someone explain, please
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> I was at that occupation - it was just prior to G20. the date is correct
> for the action, and I assume for the posting - that node number is very
> old. what's the problem??
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> Why is stuff being dragged up from the past? This is the MEDIA, not an
> encyclopaedia. Old stuff is supposed to stay as it was.
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> Diet, that sentence was posted 18 months ago. "today" is not misleading.
>
> And can people PLEASE write the message in the body of the email? I
> don't care what you put in the subject (I'll be less likely to read it
> if it doesn't make sense though), but put the message in the email, not
> the subject line.
>
> ned
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> diet simon wrote:
>> Please note: this list is archived and searchable via the web.
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>>   Office Occupation at Oricas Head Office in Melbourne
>>
>>     * View <http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/43520>
>>     * Edit <http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/43520/edit>
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>> Posted November 17th, 2006 by Anonymous
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>> Can someone please explain why this is posted with this date?
>>
>> Diet
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