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From: kadie@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: harassing mail
Message-ID: <1991May22.150711.30912@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 22 May 91 15:07:11 GMT
References: <1991May21.232534.17880@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1991May22.004900.21797@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1991May22.040819.29865@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991May22.124033.3668@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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Another clarification: If you send me e-mail falsely saying that I was
a Nazi deathcamp guard, you have not (legally) libeled me. The purpose
of libel law is to protect my reputation against false statements.
One condition of libel is it be "published" in the sense that you have
shown the false statement to someone other than me.

- Carl
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Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign