On Tue, 13 May 2003, Oliver Pereira wrote:
Mr. [name omitted for privacy reasons] did, for a
while, make the mistake of thinking that the
IMDb was a reliable source of information
Ah. I've just read Mr. [name omitted for privacy reasons]'s last e-mail to the
list, where he says
that it was another user who added the "heart attack" statement. It was in
fact 204.39.225.151 who originally added it. And it was a user with a
similar IP address, 204.39.227.248, who stated in an edit summary, "even
IMDB lists it as a heart attack...and this is the bible for celebrity
information". I therefore retract my above statement and publically
apologise to Mr. [name omitted for privacy reasons] for jumping to conclusions (or,
rather,
believing another user's conclusions) about who it was.
When its unreliability was pointed out, he attributed
the claims about
the cause of death to its sources.
The attribution was indeed done by Mr. [name omitted for privacy reasons], under the
psedonym Zxcvb,
so this part of my message still stands. I hope that clears things up a
bit.
Oliver
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| Oliver Pereira |
| Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science |
| University of Southampton |
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