That sounds good. For this article though someone was offended, so I felt it was necessary to delete it entirely and to post an apology in order to prevent any further bad feelings.
Ron
-----Original Message----- From: Giovanni Corriga [mailto:giovanni@corriga.net] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 3:41 AM To: Ron@USMedRec.com; The mailing list for the Squeak News Team Subject: Re: [News] Squeak News Retraction
Il giorno dom, 29/10/2006 alle 22.17 -0500, Ron Teitelbaum ha scritto:
All,
I've deleted a news item I posted because it was inaccurate.
I'm sorry for posting the item and my bad attempt at humor.
There's no problem, we're not the NY Times. But anyway, I propose these guidelines for editing/deleting posts:
- if you've just published the post and need to edit or delete it, just
do it: the probability of anyone having alread read the post is so low there's no need to worry about that.
- if after an hour or more you need to edit the post, edit it and add a
notice at the end of the post (with the editing date in case it's different from publishing date).
- if after an hour or more you need to delete a post, delete its content
and place a deletion notice instead. ("The post was deleted because it contained erroneous facts etc. etc.")
Any comments?
Giovanni