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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: EMail messages as Evidence
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Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 10:52:23 EST
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> How admissible is EMail as evidence in the court?  I was under the 
> impression that it was considered too easy to forge mail for it to
> be considered valid evidence.  Is this the case?

Any super-user, and any user who finds a security hole in the OS,
can forge E-mail.

Anyway, the proper forum for complaints about electronic defamation or
plagiarism is the Net itself, not the civil courts.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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