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From: rsk@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: The Tao of Programming
Summary: No proof exists.
Message-ID: <10565@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 8 Aug 89 12:38:56 GMT
References: <1989Aug4.073731.1087@ctr.columbia.edu> <570027@hpsemc.HP.COM>
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In article <570027@hpsemc.HP.COM> gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Paul Houtz) writes:
>   Bummer, Seth.  Ignorance of the law, etc.  I hope the publishers
> don't decide to sue (actually, the author has little to say about
> it).   You are probably already in amazingly hot water.  

Nonsense.  There is no proof of any kind that Seth (the person) actually
posted the articles which purport to come from seth (the account).  Given
that it is trivially easy to forge news articles, it would be very difficult
to prove that the person, the account, and the article in question were
all tied together at some point in time--unless, of course, there was
someone watching who is prepared to testify under oath...

It looks to me like Seth made an honest mistake; could we leave it at
that and move on, please?

Rich Kulawiec, University of Colorado at Boulder Computer Science Department
rsk@boulder.colorado.edu, boulder!rsk