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Subject: Re: State of the Usenet (was: Eric Mading)
Message-ID: <212@yetti.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 19:19:56 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 26 19:19:56 1987
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References: <21908@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
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Keywords: mass-media, libel
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In article <21908@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> max@eros.UUCP (Max Hauser) writes:
>
>These reaction articles make great reading as a case study in the
>state-of-the-Usenet.
>
	We are busily printing 'em, for followup papers we are working
	on. [See the prev. announcement about an upcoming posting.]
>
>In fact, of course, Usenet posters are bound not only by ordinary
>and usual standards of civility and by libel codes but also by federal
>criminal statutes ...

	This is a very important point I think. A libel suit against
	an individual, a site, or against entire USENET because of a posting
	is not unthinkable. Perhaps netiquette should be expanded to include
	laws governing libel and misuse of mass-media.

	This reminds one of growing pains...

oz
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