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- Subject: Re: Susan Garvin on Forgery
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- From: jf@pacnet.wesleyan.edu (JOHN FINN)
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:34:31 GMT
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- In article <nyikos.721348444@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
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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:
- >>>
- >>>>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.
-
- >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.
-
- >Peter Ny.
-
- Not to quibble with the main thrust, but there are occasional prosecutions
- under such laws--I believe there were no less than four prosecutions as
- recently as two or three years ago under Connecticut's anti-adultery law.
- Since then, the state legislature has repealed the law, in no small part
- because of the negative publicity these cases generated.
-
- John E. Finn
- Wesleyan University
-