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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Tektronic umbrage
Message-ID: <154@gloria.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 12:11:33 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 26 12:11:33 1985
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["Netnews - people on parade!"]

> 	Last Friday, I got a call from the local Tektronix sales rep
> who (1) offered to sell my one of their fancy $5K (I don't remember the
> exact price) plotters that was "much more reliable," and (2) informed
> me that her higher-ups at Tek were not at all pleased that I had
> posted an article from which people could infer that Tektronix
> equipment was unreliable, and stated (I paraphrase here) "Tektronix was
> not planning to take any action against me, but we are increasingly
> concerned about this kind of posting, and feel that we will have to
> take action against people who post that sort of message in the
> future."
> 	My question is: did I really do something wrong by posting the
> article?

NO!

The Net is the arsenal of anarchy.  Nobody has any business going outside
the Net for redress.  In fact, all news recipients ought to be required
to agree not to prosecute one another for netlibel.

Legally, you're in the clear.  How could it be proved who you are or
that you and not somebody else posted the article?
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel