From: Brian Beker <beker@netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 94 16:01:06 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Complaint against beker@netcom.com (fwd)
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With this and the previous response to Mr. Sternlight from Netom, this 
matter is for now laid to rest.

Brian Beker



---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 13:46:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Netcom Support <support@netcom.com>
To: david@sternlight.com
Cc: Brian Beker <beker@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Complaint against beker@netcom.com

David Sternlight writes:
> From strnlght Thu May 19 12:31:19 1994
> Return-Path: <strnlght>
> Received: by netcom.com (8.6.8.1/SMI-4.1/Netcom)
> 	id MAA01913; Thu, 19 May 1994 12:30:20 -0700
> From: strnlght (David Sternlight)
> Message-Id: <199405191930.MAA01913@netcom.com>
> Subject: Complaint against beker@netcom.com
> To: support (Netcom Support)
> Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 12:30:18 -0700 (PDT)
> In-Reply-To: <199405191033.EAA29745@spot.Colorado.EDU> from "Richard Johnson" at May 19, 94 04:33:51 am
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> 
> I mailed a complaint to netcom support. At the suggestion of the netcom
> support person I spoke to on the phone, I sent a copy to the user in
> question as well.
> 
> That user posted a copy of the complaint to a newsgroup without my
> permission. This is, of course, a violation of my copoyright. Thus he has
> compounded his violation of RSADSI's patent in PGP with a violation of my
> copyright in my e-mail.
> 
> By trying to make what should be a private matter between the user and
> netcom support, and myself and netcom support into a public cause celebre,
> and generate pressure mail on netcom support such as that below, I believe
> the user in question has further violated his agreement, and request netcom
> to take appropriate action. This time I have a personal interest in seeing
> this resolved.

Postng another person's email, while annoying, is not necessarily a violation
of copyright in our eyes.  Again, we have no intention of taking action at
this time; if you want to pursue the matter legally, then have your lawyer
talk to him.

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