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From: jwb@mcnc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.followup
Subject: Re: (sic)
Message-ID: <1699@mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Jun-83 16:26:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: mcnc.1699
Posted: Thu Jun 16 16:26:15 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jun-83 04:21:12 EDT
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In a journalism course I took there were strong admonitions to be careful
with the use of sic as the interpretation by the reader was likely to be
that it was intended as derogatory.  I think in the case of the net that
that is certainly true.