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Tamar Weinberg posted a message
“Random question for my FF followers: should I reduce the number of social sites I share here? I'm thinking that Digg/SU are somewhat overwhelming and would rather share only social media thoughts and ideas. Your opinion?”
July 7 at 6:57 am - Link
Your followers, me included, can hide whatever we want from your feed or anyone's feed. So don't worry about it. - Louis Gray
Agree with @Louis. Although, wish FF had a "turn off all (socnet site) from everyone" (ie. Twitter?) - Barbara K. Baker
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yea what louis said - Allen Stern
Barbara, it does. Here's a how-to on hiding: http://www.louisgray.com/live/... - Louis Gray
Barbara I think the already exists -- check the details of the hide function - Brian Sullivan
IMO what you share and what people see are going to be different, due to the ability to hide types of entries. My opinion is "share it, let everyone else filter their own view"... the only exception would be for the blog type, since you can't filter one without filtering the rest. - Phil (scribkin)
thanx @Louis. Learn something new each day @FF. w00t! - Barbara K. Baker
I'm with everyone else: let your subscribers shape the noise. - Akiva Moskovitz
The only place where there is a flaw and being careful of what you include is in a issue is with RSS feeds/blogs where the user can only turn them all off or on - no individual switch currently exists - Brian Sullivan
Depends on what you want your FF conversations to revolve around. If you want to keep your SU/Digg convos siloed @SU and Digg, then it makes sense. - Katina Beckham French
Digg and Reddit feeds just create noise. However they are important to see what interesting stories are out there. Keep them. - MikeonTV
Because we can hide whichever feeds we want, it is not an issue. I say share everything and let your followers filter. - Rob Diana
I don't think you should. You should share everything that you can - and the onus is on us and Friendfeed to filter/cope. I'm against reducing things to the lowest common denominator in most cases! - Andrew Girdwood
Yeah, I'm thinking I'm going to remove my stumble at least. Maybe my delicious too. I hate to see stuff I like come here 3 times over. - Jim Kukral via twhirl
Share everything you can... we can mute what we don't want to see. - Sean Reiser
Just come and post a little more often on FF! - Igor The Troll
negative. Keep'em. - john conroy
i have reduced a few to reduce the noise, you may want to consider doing the same - jeff selig
I rarely pay attention to anyone's Digg, SU, etc submissions on FF but don't find it distracting when it's there. One thing I've noticed is that since people use some social media sites more for work interests and others more for personal interests, combining them all in FF creates a sort of mixed persona - Adam Sherk
Akiva - that's a great way of putting it. I might quote you. Done. http://flipside.scribkin.com/p... Brian - I just removed my identi.ca feed because it would be categorized under 'blog' and therefore not easily hide-able if people don't like my pointless blathering. - Phil (scribkin)
I think my own Digg/Reddit/SU votes are getting too noisy for *me*. But thank you all for your valuable feedback :) - Tamar Weinberg
hide is there for a reason, people here are hungry for noise so why stop - Dobromir Hadzhiev
J. Phil, I'm famous! Thanks! - Akiva Moskovitz
Digg, what's Digg? ;-) Where's my Sphinn feed? Maybe I need to get RSS-clever with that. - Brian Carter
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Daniel Ha posted an entry on Disqus
New: Enable Support for Trackbacks in Disqus
June 17 at 8:08 am - Link
So, Duncan, it looks like Disqus trackbacks are here. - Louis Gray
Interestingly it tracks-back to the Disqus community URL link not the blog post itself. While I personally couldn't care less if another track-back ever showed up again, I don't see that decision to track-back to the Disqus community going over so well. - Robert Seidman
the real question: Spiderman underwear - did you show it? (watch the video at the bottom of the post for this) - Frederic
I'll implement Disqus on my blog the day it supports OpenID commenting - Pat Hawks
@Pat Hawks - Disqus does support OpenID through ClickPass - http://blog.disqus.net/2008/03... - Steven Hodson
I don't see it. I see a box for Name, email and website, and a button to post unverified. I want it to check if the URL I entered is an OpenID, and if it is, use that to automaticly set up a Disqus account. - Pat Hawks
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Sean Reiser commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Let’s Disqus
June 16 at 12:42 pm - Link
"I've found it interesting how it creates referals to you site (you see someone's comment on Friendfeed or their blog and head over to the initial post). I've enjoyed playing with it. Welcome aboard!" - Sean Reiser
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Sean Reiser commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: New Disqus Module for Drupal | iSeanReiser
June 15 at 10:55 pm - Link
"Actually, that would defeat the point, IMHO. The goal of Disqus is to have build a social network around commenters. The service is more for your users then you." - Sean Reiser
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Sean Reiser commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: New Disqus Module for Drupal | iSeanReiser
June 15 at 10:48 pm - Link
"1) Nope... you're either using Drupal or Disqus commenting on your site. w/ disqus you're using disqus profiles and drupal you'd have the control you're asking for. 2) You can control the tread depth and threading on the disqus setup page." - Sean Reiser
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Sean Reiser commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Who owns your comments? (Scripting News)
June 10 at 4:45 pm - Link
"I'm not familiar enough with the terms and conditions on the wikitravel site to answer the question. If they specify that your comments might be syndicated into a book then I'm fine and dandy with it, if it's a surprise I have a different answer. The interesting point here, if anyone ever reached out to me to ask, I'd say yes, no strings attached. As a matter of fact, I cross post many of my blogposts into livejournal. I post a disclaimer onto those posts saying that comments may be syndicated back to my website. (here is an example http://finbardivine.livejourna...)." - Sean Reiser
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Sean Reiser commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Disqus and Drupal: Rethinking Comments | Rob Loach .Net
June 10 at 12:40 pm - Link
"Was teasing about the plug... it's all good, I'd rather have the info and pass it out! I posted an article about your module on the blog,... hoping to deprecate my directions in favor of your module... as mine's a bit of a hack and yours is the read deal. I'll look at the backport over the weekend! Thanks!" - Sean Reiser
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Sean Reiser commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Disqus and Drupal: Rethinking Comments | Rob Loach .Net
June 10 at 11:24 am - Link
"czar, excuse the blatant plug (rob plugged his module on my site so it's fair play ;) ), but I have a howto on integrating Drupal 5 and Disqus here http://seanreiser.com/node/133..." - Sean Reiser
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Sean Reiser commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Disqus and Drupal: Rethinking Comments | Rob Loach .Net
June 10 at 10:57 am - Link
"As far as import is concerned Daniel and his team are on that (we've had numerous discussions on that topic). My entire comment strategy depends on that working (I cross post some of my posts into live journal and I'd love to use the LJ API + Disqus to consolidate comments." - Sean Reiser
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Sean Reiser commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Disqus and Drupal: Rethinking Comments | Rob Loach .Net
June 10 at 10:54 am - Link
"Re: No 5 You can already do the backup with the news aggregator module. All the other ideas we've discussed are good to haves. At the end of the day Less Spam + More Traffic == Win when it comes to comments. ;)" - Sean Reiser
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Sean Reiser commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Disqus and Drupal: Rethinking Comments | Rob Loach .Net
June 10 at 7:54 am - Link
"FYI Dave Winer is useing this over on scripting news without issue, so I suspect it will scale nicely." - Sean Reiser
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Sean Reiser commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Disqus and Drupal: Rethinking Comments | Rob Loach .Net
June 10 at 7:52 am - Link
"As a huge proponent of Disqus + Drupal I must thank you for this. Now I have to get off my b*** and port the site over to Drupal 6" - Sean Reiser
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Sean Reiser commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Disqus and Drupal: Rethinking Comments | Rob Loach .Net
June 10 at 7:51 am - Link
"FYI- 5) You can export your blog's comments via JSON, XML, RSS, etc. Currently I backup my comments into the Drupal's tables for comments. If I change my mind or Disqus is out of business, I don't lose my content.. 6) It's rather easily CSS able. One thing I have noticed is that Disqus has driven more traffic to my blog. As people's comments get syndicated onto friendfeed and their own blog they head back to my blog for the content. I've written a number of posts on the Disqus topic here (http://seanreiser.com/taxonomy...) including a howto for integrating Disqus and Drupal (while is no longer necessary since Rob wrote the module)." - Sean Reiser
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Sean Reiser commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: HowTo: Integrate Disqus with Drupal | iSeanReiser
June 10 at 7:20 am - Link
"Uggh! I haven't made the jump to Drupal 6 yet on this blog (the cobbler's children always have the worst shoes). I haven't had the time to port my hand hacked modules over to D6 yet. I'm curious... does your module back up the comments into Drupal's comment system. This might be useful as a fall back position should Disqus go down." - Sean Reiser
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Sean Reiser commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Who owns your comments? (Scripting News)
June 10 at 7:12 am - Link
"I'm of a slightly different opinion. I own my comments but by virtue of posting here I am granting you the right to display it on your blog, do appropriate back ups, display it in sidebars, etc ,etc. But you don't own the comment. The reason I feel this way is that if you were to create a best selling book "The Best Comments on Scripting News", I would expect to be consulted if my comments were to be used since it is my my work." - Sean Reiser
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Sean Reiser commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: HowTo: Integrate Disqus with Drupal | iSeanReiser
June 9 at 2:01 pm - Link
"Thank you Rob! I haven't had the time to do this. I'll check it out tonight, if I'm happy with it I'll update my posts accordingly" - Sean Reiser
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Andrew Dobrow posted an entry on Jersey, Suburbia
If Twitter Is The Rolling Stones, Plurk Is O-Town
June 5 at 5:38 pm - Link
I agree with myself completely. Good points Andrew. - Andrew Dobrow
haha! yes indeed. - Nathan Eckenrode
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Twitter is on its way down, time to bump my article for FULL EXPOSURE! MWAHAHA! - Andrew Dobrow
I can't believe someone hasn't really tried to pick up on this and do something. And good points, Andrew, hehe. - Michelle Martinez
Michelle. Someone has picked it up. ME! - Andrew Dobrow
*Liked* for Andrew's first comment :) - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
*chuckle* - Michael W. May via twhirl
I blame scoble - Sean Reiser via twhirl
Keep laughing, Michael, I got you later :). And, Andrew, smart alec, I meant picked it up, meaning monopolized twitter's lack of service and promoted their own service. No need to be sarcastic to the least tech savvy person of FF. Just sayin'. ;) - Michelle Martinez
Well Twit-Out kinda did that too. But that was more about improving the service more than anything. - Andrew Dobrow
I blame FriendFeed. If you rewind the meta, it started to spread quickly here and on Twitter. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
@Andrew Do you believe the Twit-Out promoted FriendFeed? - Michelle Martinez
For sure. It also helped people gain some awareness about how communities should treat their users. Directly after Twit-Out is when Twitter started making these changes in communications. And that was one of the main concerns. - Andrew Dobrow
I think it gave FF more awareness. I pay attention to this as much now as I do twitter. - Michelle Martinez
Well... both Rolling Stones and O-Town are down now. - Morton Fox
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Sean Reiser commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: More Random Musings on Conversion | iSeanReiser
June 5 at 6:15 pm - Link
"oh, if you didn't see it, there's a podcast feed of my church's sermons here (http://feeds.feedburner.com/se......)" - Sean Reiser
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Sean Reiser commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: More Random Musings on Conversion | iSeanReiser
June 5 at 6:05 pm - Link
"Thank you! And welcome to you as well!" - Sean Reiser
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Sean Reiser commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: .... On the other Hand... Heading back to Disqus | iSeanReiser
June 5 at 6:05 pm - Link
"sure you can. head back to my original post on the subject (http://seanreiser.com/node/133...). In step 12 notice the array with a list of nodetypes on the second line? You can add or remove any node type you think is appropriate. Good Luck!" - Sean Reiser
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Bwana McCall posted an entry on bwana
bwana asks do you feel Plurk is worth using daily?
June 4 at 9:32 am - Link
no, too clunky - Anthony Farrior
Unusable :) Inaccessible, I hate sites made this way - directeur
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No. - Mike Reynolds
There's just so much time in a day, you know? - Tom Landini
There's so many things to do, too :) - directeur
nah; too few of the people I follow use it, the UI makes it kind of difficult to follow the ones that are there. - Evan Sims
just not enough going on and yet at the same time, too busy looking - edythe
that was my issue from start. Think it is gimmicky. Will wear off. Hard to follow - Crystal Clear via Alert Thingy
i haven't signed up to see how it works but from what i see it looks too busy for me. i hate to say it (but, i have to) but, it's almost like an extended version of Twitter to my eyes. to answer the question at hand: i doubt i would use it daily. - Outsanity
I have to play with it more but I kind of doubt it. No specific reason why other than perhaps I prefer the layout of FF and if I've got an extra 3 hours to spend I find this more enjoyable than Plurk. But who knows, I've got to play with it more. - Thomas Hawk
Nooooooooooooo FAIL! - Susan Beebe
with a twhril like client side tool it might be interesting. - Sean Reiser
Regardless, I think it just rose to become the Twitter alternative. So expect more news about plurk as time passes. I think the interface'll improve, but nothing's gonna beat Twitter. Hell, I'm not even sure Twitter'll go mainstream. - Ben Parr
@Ben i feel it's basically Twitter but all fancy like - Outsanity
Scoble says to check out the mobile version, supposedly much more usable? Will have to try it. - Joel Gray
<sarcasm>Amen</sarcasm> - directeur
Interesting presentation but usability could be a prob for frequent use. Too early for the market - Akshay Dodeja
I just went and looked at the "Interesting Plurkers" link. Make the bad web stop! *cries* - Yolanda
I've noticed that the same interesting people I follow here are less interesting on plurk. EG. More of the "i'm brushing my teeth" or "i'm having a sandwich" than anything with substance. Maybe that will change with more friends, but i'm finding it very hard to make friends there without a public stream or search. - Doug Brooks
Nah. - Aaron Myers
I seem to be a minority, which is nothing new here, but I do love Plurk - It's so fun, seriously... I'm sad that so many of you are not even interested... But that will make it less likely to crash like Twitter, which is good for those of us who do prefer it over Twitter! :) YAY!! - Paula Hawk
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Colin Walker posted a message
“Going to conduct an experiment: sign up a separate FF account and behave like a 'user' rather than a geek to see what I can get out of it when outside of the echo chamber.”
June 4 at 8:51 am - via fftogo - Link
Its going to be hard to change your mindset. - David Risley
will your user profile subscribe to your geek profile? Would one bleed through into the other? This is really interesting stuff, let us know how it all goes! - Iain Baker
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David - I agree but I think it's something worth trying to gain some perspective and a different point of view - Colin Walker via fftogo
But what will you read then? - Cyndy
@Cyndy - that's my question too. Colin - to whom will you subscribe? - Hutch Carpenter
The two accounts will be completely separate and the new one will focus on non-tech stuff. I'll find to subscribe to via searches - not really worked it all out yet ;) - Colin Walker via fftogo
Colin, I do understand. My initial reaction to FriendFeed wasn't exactly positive. Then it grew on me. Still noisy, but I learned to dig it. - David Risley
pseudo handles have always been around- depends what type of online personality you want that pseudo handle to take on. - Peter Dawson
possibly, to tackle David's point about changing your mindset, you could ask a non-tech friend to sign up to FriendFeed and report back to you on their experience. Sounds like a interesting experiment at any rate, Colin. - Scott O'Raw
So THAT's why I got a signup from "NotColin_ForRealz". - Louis Gray
Scary - what if we find out there's life out there? - Aviv
@Louis, hehehe - not done it yet and nothing personal but I won't be subscribing to any of the usual suspects ;) - Colin Walker
@David, my initial reaction soon after launch was similar but I attribute that to not having many 'friends' on it at the time so it didn't really click. Once I subscribed to more people the value became apparent. As for getting someone else to do it, I don't think the experience will translate as well as I would hope. We'll see what happens. - Colin Walker
please do a lessons learned write up on this - love to see your findings! - Susan Beebe
HOW I DON'T CARE !!! - directeur
I was kidding of course! read more here :) http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ho... - directeur
Hmmm, okay ;) - Colin Walker
you're a geek?? - Mary Anne Davis
'fraid so Mary - Colin Walker
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Sean Reiser commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Signs You Might Be An Early Adopter
June 4 at 7:46 am - Link
"That's funny... 1, 5, 7 and 8 have my name all over them" - Sean Reiser
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Shey posted a link
Who Owns Your Comments? - We Need Your Input
Who Owns Your Comments? - We Need Your Input
June 3 at 10:16 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
The definition of "own" is a little slippery here no? - Brian Sullivan
This is a long standing argument in the community that rears its ugly head from time to time. Articles from 2005 should also be noted: http://friendfeed.com/e/2cd8c2... - Michael Beck
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Any system of accepting input (whether it's a comment, a username, or an uploaded photo) can specify TOS. So if a service (like Disqus) has some fine-print about owning (with rights to republish or repurpose) the comments inputed into their system, it's seems pretty clear-cut who owns the copyright. Think about the guy who published the Chuck Norris Facts book based on user-inputed data from his website. Think her got 10,000 approvals to re-publish? Nope, it was specified upfront in his site's TOS. - Carter Rabasa
Did somebody call? Oh, you said "slippery". My bad. - Slippy Lane
the comments want to be free. - Thomas Hawk
I draw a parallel between blog comments and "letters to the editor" in old media. If you think of it from that persepective, the commentor owns the comment and can do whatever they want, but by submitting it they extend a non-exclusive right to publish the comment to the blog. Same as people would write the same letter to 2 or more newspapers, you are free to resubmit your comments to multiple blogs, on your own blog, etc etc. - Sean Reiser
Define "own." - Robert Scoble
My comments are on a permanent loan to FriendFeed. :-) - Robert Scoble
If I say something out loud in the middle of times square (or any other public space) - does anyone "own" my speech? - Tony Haenn
Ugh. No one. - JonathanJoseph
It's all about an agreement I think. By default, if you make an interview for example, YOU own the rights on the interview, not the one who's interviewed. Because you did the "intellectual" effort of asking the right questions... - directeur
is there a difference between written and spoken words? legally, i mean... - TJ Trapp
Free for anyone to use for non-profit purposes, as long as they credit the originator. And no, adsense doesn't count as making a blog "for-profit". - Zach Landes
According to FF TOS (though it may be a bit ambiguous) it would seem comments here are "owned" by them: 4. Intellectual Property (Trademarks & Copyrights) - Brian Sullivan
Another example, say In my blog I have terms that say that I can edit your comments if I want to, and if you do comment you're bound to these terms... then it's "obvious" that I own your comments :) - directeur
it's like if you wrote on someone elses house. It's their house. they can do what they want to with the comment. - Josh via twhirl
I'm pretty sure I own all your comments. - felix
@Josh That's a poor example -- writing on someone else's house is called vandalism. - Shey
Also, I think its time for Creative Commons to come up with some comment licenses that bloggers can display. - Zach Landes
The day we start fights about who owns a thought or a scribbling is the day we give up the freedom that interaction brings us. It shouldn't be about ownership. Ownership is related to the self, the ego. It should be about contribution. If you want to own things, keep it to yourself and shut up. But I'd rather have everyone contributing with the idea that the contribution itself provides us all value. - Alexander van Elsas
@directeur Ownership and control are 2 different things. - Shey
Alexander: I own rights on software I make, articles and books I write that doesn't mean I don't contribute in opensource and free knowledge :) - directeur
@Alexander Ownership of our original thoughts and creations is a hallmark of the Western World. Imagine how many fewer companies would have been started, how many fewer hours great minds would have spent in the lab or sitting at their desk to create, if they knew that they had no ownership of their ideas. There is no point in pretending that people are only motivated by good will toward others. - Zach Landes
Alexander: True. But if you consider all written thoughts to belong to the commons, then the question of who's allowed to manage it still remains. For example: is someone allowed to delete (retract) his own comment at all times, or is someone allowed to delete comments on his blog, and when is this censorship? The ownership question itself doesn't matter much. - Meryn Stol
@Shey: I own implies I control, I can control something if the owner lets me do this, right? - directeur
@directeur No. Ownership rights and management rights are different in my view. I give the bank management rights to play with my money when I invest, it doesn't make it their money. - Shey
This is such an odd debate. What's the point of voting about whether commenters "own" their comments? No matter how the vote turns out, they don't. The person who owns the website (to which the comments were submitted) can do anything they want with them (including deleting or editing them). To pretend that the submitters have "rights" to how the is stored, displayed, or anything else is kind of a farce. - Carter Rabasa
I think this is really kind of silly. This is a public forum, so in reality, anyone who wants to rip your comment, quote, blog, or whatever will, and chances are, someone already has no matter if they were involved in the discussion at all. The success of this global social network is that we are able to freely share and exchange ideas, and if we just go back to the primitive thought process that you can hold on to complete creative control of a one liner you post on twitter, we might see problems. - Anthony
@Shey that's exactly what i'm saying :) - directeur
any comment I leave, I don't want to claim ownership. They are passing thoughts of little value to me in the long run. If I have a thought that I want to claim some semblance of ownership, I write a blog post. For stuff that's really valuable to me and I don't want people ripping off, I keep it offline. - Jason Kaneshiro
I'm with Jason Kaneshiro, though I haven't figured out anything really valuable to keep offline yet ;-) - Robert Seidman
I just want to be able to edit, delete, and export my comments. Call it whatever you want. - Shey
Be careful with Terms of Service. Many people think that by putting Terms of Service of their website they're covered. But unless you can prove the user actually read them, or more specifically, agreed to them (i.e. by making check an "I agree" box) all a user has to say is "I never saw that, and I wouldn't have agreed if I did" and the burden would be on your to prove otherwise. - Michael Beck
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