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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: Susan Garvin on Forgery
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- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
- References: <Bx1x2s.7y.2@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Nov1.203244.6982@ncsu.edu> <1992Nov2.030201.20294@netcom.com> <1992Nov2.062153.465@rotag.mi.org> <1#f14wn@rpi.edu> <kmr4.32.720730222@po.CWRU.edu> <z+f1y!q@rpi.edu> <kmr4.36.720737660@po.CWRU.edu> <1992Nov3.161742.24954@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 22:34:04 GMT
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- In <1992Nov3.161742.24954@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> dsc@gemini.tmc.edu (Doug S. Caprette Bldg. 28 W191 x3892) writes:
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- >In article <kmr4.36.720737660@po.CWRU.edu> you write:
- >>In article <z+f1y!q@rpi.edu> keegan@acm.rpi.edu (James G. Keegan Jr.) writes:
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- >>>has anyone been prosecuted for forging a net.post?
- >>>
- >>
- >> I doubt there would be much incentive to, as they are normally
- >>done in humor. Nor, do I think that one ought to go after every single
- >>last bugger. Like the obcure Maine law which stipulates that one can not take
- > ^^^^^
- >>a bath/shower while naked, they are lax in the enforcement. However, there
- >>have been several suits over false quoting in a public bulletin board, and
- >>I certainly think forging a post can be construed as a classification of
- >>missquoting. So yes, if one causes enough damage, you can be procesuted.
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- >Can you give me a reference for this law? How much do you want to bet that
- >it was passed in reference to showering/bathing on a public beach?
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- Sounds about right. A lot of "bizarre" laws get to look just a tad less
- bizarre when you read the fine print. South Carolina has laws against
- "adultery" and "fornication", but to be illegal these must involve either
- cohabitation or habitual actions.
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- Even so, one would think that sometimes people would be prosecuted under
- the law, at the behest of jilted spouses and SO's, but one never reads
- of such things in the papers.
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- Peter Ny.
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