What Genie said. Also see Joe's note below the post of "GUEST, Sam". Here's an excerpt about this from my PM to Bruce:

Yes, I see that the Ted Kennedy obit thread was started by GUEST, Sam. I imagine that Joe let it slide because it was an Obit thread and because Sam had simply copied-and-pasted some obit info from a legitimate source. But if you question that exception to the rule, why not PM Joe about it? Grumbling... about it in a Mudcat thread would be... ineffectual. It doesn't change my opinion about Joe or about Mudcat policy; I think that any criticism of such a non-inflammatory Obit thread, simply because it was started by a GUEST, falls into the "red herring" category.