Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!yetti!oz From: oz@yetti.UUCP Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: State of the Usenet (was: Eric Mading) Message-ID: <212@yetti.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 19:19:56 EST Article-I.D.: yetti.212 Posted: Thu Nov 26 19:19:56 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 08:13:17 EST References: <21908@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) Distribution: na Organization: York U. Computer Science Lines: 25 Keywords: mass-media, libel Xref: yetti news.admin:1259 news.sysadmin:422 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 -- You see things, and you say "WHY?" Usenet: [decvax|ihnp4]!utzoo!yetti!oz But I dream things that never were; ......!seismo!mnetor!yetti!oz and say "WHY NOT?" Bitnet: oz@[yusol|yulibra|yuyetti] [Back To Methuselah] Bernard Shaw Phonet: [416] 736-5257 x 3976