From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 10:33:40 -0700 (PDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Judge rules "harmless flame" is harassment
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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
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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

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