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From: kre@munnari.oz (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: news.stargate
Subject: Re: I am not a lawyer, but a lawyer isn't a computer scientist either
Message-ID: <1597@munnari.oz>
Date: Tue, 28-Apr-87 12:29:45 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 28 12:29:45 1987
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Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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In article <205@brandx.klinzhai.RUTGERS.EDU>, webber@klinzhai.RUTGERS.EDU (Webber) writes:
> Actually, something else protects us.  There is no way you could ever
> establish a chain of evidence connecting me to the message appearing
> on your screen now.

Nonsense.  You get called as a witness (there's no "5th amendment"
in civil matters) and asked.  If you lie you risk being discovered
sometime, and that's perjury.  Believe it or not, almost no-one
(you included) is willing to risk a serious criminal offence for
the purposes of avoiding liability in a civil action, it's simply
not worth it.

> The sooner lawyers realize that computers are
> part of a world that has nothing to do with their world, the better
> for all concerned.

If anything was really needed to demonstrate how meaningless your postings
have all been, this is it.

There is nothing in the world that has "nothing to do with their [lawyers]
world".  Nor will there ever be.  Nor should there ever be.  Lawyers
decide what is part of their world, and its in their own interests to
expand that as much as possible.

Just as computer scientists get to decide what is relevant to the
computer world .. what would you think if your local plumber told
you that the sooner that computer scientists realized that computers
have nothing to do with washing machines the better .. especially if
you just happened to be in the process of creating code for a
washing machine controller chip.

Please return to kindergarten, and let the net continue to degrade
at its own grinding pace, instead of trying to push it down.

And as to whether the posters of articles necessarily agree that they
are a good thing to have posted .. nonsense .. I'm sure that in about
5 minutes I'll be certain that this was not an intelligent idea at
all, if only this newsgroup was moderated the moderator could dump
this trash into the waste pile where it belongs.  Everybody would
be better off.

kre