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From: stevens@cascade.STANFORD.EDU (Greg Stevens)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Responsibility for postings.
Message-ID: <354@cascade.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 15:43:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 13 15:43:46 1987
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Allow me my two cents worth on this matter.

Why can't Usenet adopt a policy that anyone who avails themselves of
the services of this network implicitly relinquishes the right to
persue any legal activity concerning libel or slander? Perhaps the
system administrators of the backbone sites could fomulate such a
policy and generate the text of some release message that will be
displayed to first time posters ( similar to the startup message
of "rn" ) Couldn't the existance of such a policy put to rest any
future incidents such as this one? Comments?





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Greg Stevens, Computer Systems Laboratory, Stanford University
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