Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling

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From: Charles Bryant
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 00:00

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In article <1999Apr27.113936.827@emgee.demon.co.uk>,
mike <mike@emgee.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Charles Bryant (n94116989.ch@chch.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>: In the case of the article in question, it could be argued that those
>: credulous enough to believe it was genuine would have realised their
>: mistake when it was pointed out that the author appeared to have
>: misspelled his own name (which would have been supplied by his
>: software, so it couldn't be human error).
>
>Strangely enough I've just come across an email where the author had 
>mispelled her own name. It was a request to me (the person who actually
>set up her software) to tell her how to change it. People frequently
>end up with common mispellings of their name for just this reason.

However in the case in question the person had posted articles both
before and after the forgery with the correct name.

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From: Charles Bryant <n1341002287.ch@chch.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling
Date: 1999/04/29
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