In article <evidenceCq3902.BGF@netcom.com> you write:

David Sternlight (strnlght@netcom.com) wrote: : In article <199405191106.FAA01087@spot.colorado.edu>, : Richard Johnson <alt.fan.david-sternlight.usenet@decwrl.dec.com> wrote:

: By publishing a private e-mail, both beker and Johnson are in violation of : my copyright in that message, since it was a private communication and no : permission was given to republish.

Actually, David, since you did not register your copyrighted material with the U.S. Copyright Office before the alleged infringement (I don't know for sure that you actually authored that work, and you can't prove that you did because you didn't sign it using *pgp*!!!), you are limited to recovering your actual damages (such as lost profits), which in my estimation would be zero...... Moreover, the re-print here is probably justified as fair use for purposes of comment and criticism... which is exactly what seems to be occuring here.

Anyway, you have a difficult burden of establishing that the document that you claim to be yours is actually yours, as any number of other people could also claim to have written it.

Its a funny thing about the net... You can't be sure who wrote what...

By the way, in your letter, you claim that you discovered a PGP key from version 2.3a.... Now, how do you know that this was a PGP key? DId you run it through PGP to verify that it was? Or are you just assuming that, because it looks like a PGP public key, that it is???

: Thus beker has now committed a new violation of his netcom agreement, and : Johnson shows he has bad judgement. What's more, by trying to make what : should be a private matter, to be decided by netcom based on their own : rules, into a public cause celebre, and by writing to netcom as Johnson did : to intervene in a private matter, he has made the situation worse for beker, : not better.

We shall see...

: Netcom is perfectly capable of telling me to go peddle my papers if I'm : wrong.

Please let us know when they do that, David.

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