Responding to msg by tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) on Wed, 10 Jan 0:9 AM
I'm not trivializing the issue of search engines and archiving systems turning up articles written, old posts, etc. Every couple of weeks, sometimes more often, someone sends me a copy of one of my postings and claims that someone else must be forging my name (recent posts on racial issues, for example--while I'm not a racist, I despise quotas, setasides, and preferential treatment for lazy people, of any race...this obviously makes some people "ashamed for me" :-}).
http://nytsyn.com/live/News3/006_010696_101827_2723.html Last summer the first case in Britain of a libel on the Internet was settled out of court when Laurence Godfrey accepted undisclosed damages from another nuclear physicist, Philip Hallam-Baker, over remarks made in 1993 on Usenet, an electronic conference with 16 million users. And Peter Lilley, the Social Security Secretary, sent a stiff letter to the vice-chancellor of Leeds University after one of its students used a faculty computer to make defamatory allegations about him.