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From: ejp@ausmelb.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Forgeries
Message-ID: <155@ausmelb.OZ>
Date: Tue, 28-Apr-87 02:24:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: ausmelb.155
Posted: Tue Apr 28 02:24:16 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 29-Apr-87 06:26:55 EDT
References: <9405@decwrl.DEC.COM> <655@desint.UUCP> <1577@munnari.oz> <272@ems.UUCP>
Reply-To: ejp@ausmelb.UUCP (Esmond Pitt)
Organization: Austec International Limited, Melbourne
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Xref: utgpu news.misc:314 news.sysadmin:157

In article <272@ems.UUCP> mark@ems.UUCP (Mark H. Colburn) writes:
>In article <1577@munnari.oz> kre@munnari.oz (Robert Elz) writes:
>>In article <655@desint.UUCP>, geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
>>> I think it's also worth pointing out that forgery is definitely a crime.
>>> So is slander.
>>
>>Not unless the US has even more wierd laws than I thought.  [...]
>
>	In the US, slander and defamation of character are both 
>	against the law.  newspapers and other publishers get 
>	sued for it every day.

Yes but you don't get sued for committing a crime, you get prosecuted.
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You get sued for civil matters such as slanders, debt, divorce etc.
Debt, marriage and desertion aren't crimes either.

kre was referring to the difference b/w the civil and criminal codes.
It's an important point.
-- 
Esmond Pitt, Austec International Ltd
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