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From: craig@com2serv.C2S.MN.ORG (Craig S. Wilson)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: The Rape of Usenet
Message-ID: <3310@com50.C2S.MN.ORG>
Date: 27 Dec 89 23:55:38 GMT
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In article <25415@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>This article Copyright 1989 by Tim Smith.  All Rights Reserved.
>No one is granted permission to read this article.  If you already
>did, you may be able to convince me not to sue you by sending
>me $1...

I believe that this is an attempt to extort money from me.  That is a
crime.  Since you used the telephone system and crossed state lines,
it is probably a federal crime.

Your threat of legal action has put me under great emotional stress.
I think that I will sue, unless....

/craig

P.S. only kidding.