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From: jj@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Responsibility for postings.
Message-ID: <7341@alice.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 16:44:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: alice.7341
Posted: Thu Oct  8 16:44:28 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 06:37:57 EDT
References: <378d6016.b8ab@apollo.uucp> <5261@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <2050@kitty.UUCP> <1014@looking.UUCP>
Organization: AT*T-BL, Murray Hill, Signal Processing Research Department
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Summary: One minor point
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In article <1014@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP writes:
> Civil litigation doesn't require such a rigid definition of proof.  Can
> I demonstrate with certainty that <30049@sun.uucp> came from Chuq Von Rospach?
> No.  But if, within the next couple of weeks, I don't see an article from
> him claiming, "hey, somebody posted something with my name that I didn't say!",
> then it is extremely likely that he posted it.


Um, err, not quite.  It's very true that if some dweeb posts
an article that says it comes from your machine, lots of news software
will realize it's "already been there" and not send it there,
ergo the person who's been forged (not the forger) will NEVER
see the article, or know that it exists, except by means other
than direct observation.

This feature of news software does indeed bother me.
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