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Re: Exodus (last post)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Oct 8 04:22:03 1998
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 00:56:53 -0700
From: owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US (Owen DeLong)
To: nanog@merit.edu, patrick@ianai.net
> At 09:07 PM 10/7/98 -0400, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 08:31:28PM -0400, chrism@postino.raremedium.com
> wrote:
> >> corportate lawyer sent a note to me (with copy to my company's legal
> >> counsel) that he found my "numerous notes" to be "offensive and
> harassing".
> >
> >Heh. Point him to the Bill of Rights. :P
>
> IANAL, but if they can prove anything he asserted as factual is not true -
> and he knew that when he posted - can't they sue him in civil court? Or
> something like that?
>
> Of course, that's pretty hard to prove, but hey, OJ got off. :)
>
> TTFN,
> patrick
>
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>
I believe you are talking about Libel, and if I recall, that requires the
following tests be met:
1. Malice of intent
2. Knowledgeable untruth
If either is missing, I believe libel cannot be prosecuted.
IANAL either.
Owen
