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>Tom you completely missed my point. It's a great service to others to
>warn about bad experiences with companies and it's one of the purposes of
>the misc.consumers newsgroup, BUT read again the statement Adam made that
>I quoted. He directly accuses that company of criminal conduct: "Comp
>America is a mail-order company that makes money by sending out broken
>computer systems." It maybe true or not, but unless he can prove it with
>more than one fact it is dangerous to make such statements.

Correction please. TRUTH is an absolute defense to slander and libel. He
needs no more than ONE FACT to sustain his position. In addition, you
assume a fact not in issue. I read his original post. He accuses them of
selling shoddy merchandise. You CANNOT ASSume from that statement that he
is accusing them of criminal conduct as that is the province of a jury.
You made a giant leap which cannot be sustained. The ONLY thing that he
needs to do to successfuly defend a slander suit is to prove that they
sent out "a broken computer system". 



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