[116382] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dan Kaminsky
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cord MacLeod)
Mon Aug 3 22:07:58 2009
From: Cord MacLeod <cordmacleod@gmail.com>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090804010235.GT51443@gerbil.cluepon.net>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 19:07:03 -0700
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Read my post one more time... The standards you described are what I
described. No video, no audio = no speech = no slander. The article
was written, hence libel.
On Aug 3, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 01:11:17PM -0700, Cord MacLeod wrote:
>> I don't see a video attached or an audio recording. Thus no slander.
>>
>> Libel on the other hand is a different matter.
>
> You have those backwards. Slander is transitory (i.e. spoken)
> defamation, libel is written/recorded/etc non-transitory defamation.
> This seems like a group that could benefit from knowing those two
> words.
> :)
>
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