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From: mark@ems.UUCP (Mark H. Colburn)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Forgeries
Message-ID: <272@ems.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 25-Apr-87 09:57:59 EDT
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Posted: Sat Apr 25 09:57:59 1987
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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.

	Think about it for a second.  If someone was running around
	saying that  Robert Elz is a child molester :-), you would
	want some sort of legal recourse to stop the perpetrator of
	that awful statement.  Especially if that person was able to
	obtain some kind of rapport with the media.

	You may not be is such a position that anybody would try to
	do this to you, but many public figures have to wary of
	such 'rumors' that might ruin their career.

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