--- begin forwarded text Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 20:42:26 -0400 From: oldbear@arctos.com (The Old Bear) (by way of rah@shipwright.com (Robert A. Hettinga)) To: rah@shipwright.com Subject: Judge rules "harmless flame" is harassment Organization: The Arctos Group - http://www.arctos.com/arctos Mime-Version: 1.0 Path: news-central.tiac.net!news-in.tiac.net!posterchild!arctos.com!oldbear Newsgroups: tiac Lines: 23 NNTP-Posting-Host: arctos.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4] X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.3.0 Status: RO hmmm.... there is something strangely familiar about the premise behind this story, but I can't seem to figure out what it might be... JUDGE ORDERS DALLAS MAN TO CEASE HARASSMENT ON NET A district judge in Texas has issued a restraining order against a Dallas man who was using the Internet to post sexually derogatory remarks about the wife of a couple who operate an Internet Service Provider. The man said he had developed "a bad taste in (his) mouth" after trying unsuccessfully to reach the company to price its services; however, he now "wholeheartedly, 100 percent" denies that his messages were threatening and insists that they merely adopted the sarcastic language typically found on the Internet. source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution October 17, 1996 --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The cost of anything is the foregone alternative" -- Walter Johnson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/