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From: russ@crlt.UUCP (Russ Cage)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Responsibility for postings.
Message-ID: <973@crlt.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 20:14:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 23 20:14:57 1987
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Summary: Watch what you say, Joe, you just libelled M-Net's sysop.
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In article <1592@epimass.EPI.COM>, jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
[referring to Mark Ethan Smith, of many loginids and sites]
> Mark has been booted off three different systems (well, m-net, and
> chinet), and is now being subjected to a campaign by you to get the
> net to throw him off again.

The above-quoted sentence is false and libelous to Mike Myers, M-Net's
owner and sysop.  I can say for certain that it was made with a reckless
disregard for the truth, since a cursory investigation would reveal that:

1.)	Mark Smith *never* had an account purged from M-Net for any
	reason whatsoever,
2.)	Mark left M-Net on his own volition (and ran a conference called
	"human viability" until his departure), and
3.)	Even after his un-coerced departure from M-Net, Mark returned
	on occasion to use the loginid 'reason' to exchange mail with
	Mike Myers, the sysop.  I have seen the loginid in use.

Marks views met with no more popularity on M-Net than with Larry Lippman;
however, Mark was not "booted off of" M-Net any more than Larry could
boot Mark off of Usenet.  All of the above information could be gathered
with a brief quiz, via e-mail, of a sample of users.  M-Net is a public
access system [ (313) 994-6333 ], so there is no excuse for pushing
misinformation over Usenet when you could check for yourself.

> - Joe Buck  {uunet,ucbvax,sun,decwrl,<smart-site>}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck
> 	    Old internet mailers: jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net
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