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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: Legalities
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Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 15:51:12 EST
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I don't think that any lawsuits have resulted from net-related
items to date -- but I know of a couple of cases where suits almost
happened due to messages that were seen as libel.  One problem
is who would get sued?  You can't really authenticate message
authorship, and the net is totally distributed.  Of course, once
clear targets (like a broadcast carrier in an operational service) 
are obvious, this could change.

--Lauren--