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Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling

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From: Joy Hilbert
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 00:00
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Robert Mortimer <robm@bob.bofh.org> writes
>Ok how about just reading the manuals, and the welcome to usenet/this
>is netiquette files that come with most news readers/ISP accounts.
>Still I suppose expecting people to take time to actually read a
>manual is a bit much.[1] 

Could you point me to the bit in the manuals and welcome to usenet
stuff which explains that
(a) it is possible to cancel something which is not "your own article"
(b) something forged to look as if you wrote it is "your own article" for
the purpose of cancellation?
-- 
Joy Hilbert
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From: Joy Hilbert <hilbert@hilbert.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling
Date: 1999/04/25
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