PRIVACY: Private traces in public places

[Anonymous]

Responding to msg by tcmay at 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.