From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1073ca,4a8a8d82b8f00ad9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073ca,public X-Google-Thread: f49ec,4a8a8d82b8f00ad9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf49ec,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4a8a8d82b8f00ad9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 102680,4a8a8d82b8f00ad9 X-Google-Attributes: gid102680,public From: tph@fmicos.uucp (Tom "Tom" Harrington) Subject: Re: Brian Bell on harassing email Date: 1996/05/08 Message-ID: <4mr7hf$kk4@eccdb1.pms.ford.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 153818734 references: <4m6eem$qqs@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> <318826D7.1267@mdn.net> <4m99p7$acm@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> <4mefb9$114@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> followup-to: boulder.general,co.general,co.media,comp.lang.ada organization: Mechanist Industries reply-to: tph@rmii.com newsgroups: boulder.general,co.general,co.media,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-05-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Scott Weiser (Scott.Weiser@worldnet.att.net) wrote: : So, each time that Mr. James publically "copies" and "publishes" a private : e-mail correspondence, he violates U.S. copyright law, and the authors of : those messages are the victims of tortious conduct and can sue him. : All of which is interesting, but since the courts would likely not find : against a mentally deranged person, it's probably a waste of time to sue. It's probably a waste of time anyway. If someone violates your copyright, you can sue for financial damages. Except in very rare cases, you'd have a hard time proving any sort of financial loss as a result of posting private email. Then there's the forgery question. It's easy to forge a Usenet article in someone else's name; so even if you sued, it'd be possible for the defendant to claim that the posting was a forgery, from someone else. -- Tom Harrington --------- tph@rmii.com --------- http://rainbow.rmii.com/~tph --------==========> KOOK CODE: (Grubor+)*2 Fomin+ KC: 3 <==========-------- This signature is not to be removed under penalty of law, except by the consumer. ---> Visit CONSPIRACY ONLINE: http://rainbow.rmii.com/~tph/bunker.html <----