Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling

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From: mike
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:00

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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.

-- 
Mike Cavanagh.

http://i.am/purple

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From: mike@emgee.demon.co.uk (mike)
Subject: Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling
Date: 1999/04/27
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