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From: mbrown@tonic.osf.org (Mark Brown)
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Subject: Re: Len Rose and problems in Illinois
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Date: 2 Nov 90 16:02:59 GMT
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jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
|> I'd also like to remind everyone that speculations as to whether
|> or not my alleged article was responsible [for a firing]...

Hmmm. Some idle speculation about whether something someone said affected
someone else's action doesn't seem like libel to me.

|> Also, some persons have tried to
|> link my article with some conspiracy 

BUT, posts linking you you to a "conspiracy" (like some of the posts I've
seen on here) *are* pretty irresponsible.

|> I'd also like to remind everyone that not only was the article
|> cancelled shortly after it appeared, but a retraction of many

So there *was* an article. You never admitted to this before.

|> Just so everyone gets to hear it from me one more time, Len
|> has never been arrested for selling stolen equipment; Len has
|> never been convicted of selling stolen equipment.  Len has been
|> investigated for a number of things, none of which implies
|> that he is guilty of anything whatsoever.  I have hoped that

Nice retraction, in plain English.

|> this entire episode would kindly go away, but with people like
|> the readers of this group dredging it up at every turn, it is
|> no wonder that Len continues to have problems.  I at least am
|> trying to be part of the solution, while each and every one of
|> you who continue to post new and unfounded rumors seem bent
|> on being part of the problem.

All you had to do was re-post the above retraction. No need for lectures
on libel, John.

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