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From: dw@rocksvax.UUCP (Don Wegeng)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: Legalities
Message-ID: <760@rocksvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-Jan-85 12:49:51 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 27 12:49:51 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 28-Jan-85 06:47:51 EST
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Reply-To: dw@rocksvax.UUCP (Don Wegeng)
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Summary: 

In article <2645@sdcc3.UUCP> Bat Man@sdcc3.UUCP (rich) writes:
>
>Has anyone ever been sued over anything done over the net?
>Or do you guys just like threatening each other alot???

For obvious reasons I'm not going to go into details, but I am aware
of at least one case where a site was threatened with a lawsuit after
one of it's users posted a message which stated that another company's
product was "garbage".  This happened a couple of years ago.  While
this might be an extreme case, it shows that the need for moderation
of some sort is not that off base.

-- 
/Don

"Don't touch me, I'm a real live wire.  Psycho Killer..."

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