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From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.legal
Subject: Re: Car Ads from NJ
Message-ID: <714@grkermi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 08:29:15 EST
Article-I.D.: grkermi.714
Posted: Mon Dec  2 08:29:15 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Dec-85 04:45:03 EST
References: <330@weitek.UUCP>
Reply-To: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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Keywords: nj, att
Xref: watmath net.auto:8775 net.legal:2604
Summary: 

In article <330@weitek.UUCP> mmm@weitek.UUCP (Mark Thorson) writes:
>... [flame about car ads from NJ appearing on USENET]
>
>Do you want these things off the net?  If the cars really exist, call up the
>NJ police and report them stolen.  That should make it interesting to sell.

What you are advocating here is a CRIMINAL ACT.  It's called "falsely reporting
an incident", and carries substantial criminal penalties (in addition to the
possibility of a civil suit.)

There is still a gray area concerning the liability of bulletin-board systems
for postings advocating illegal acts - cf. the Tcimipides (sp?) case.  I would
hate to see USENET held responsible if someone were foolish enough to follow
through with your suggestion!

AWR