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1997-06-08 - Re: Responses to “Spam costs and questions” (long)

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From: “William H. Geiger III” <whgiii@amaranth.com>
To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Message Hash: b7ae8e06f891192210dae8fa48c794101f9a5097cbc602d4e82cb982d361e005
Message ID: <199706081636.LAA05963@mailhub.amaranth.com>
Reply To: <JumZ8D35w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-06-08 16:47:16 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 00:47:16 +0800

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From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 00:47:16 +0800
To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Subject: Re: Responses to "Spam costs and questions" (long)
In-Reply-To: <JumZ8D35w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
Message-ID: <199706081636.LAA05963@mailhub.amaranth.com>
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In <JumZ8D35w165w@bwalk.dm.com>, on 06/08/97 
   at 12:11 PM, dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM) said:

>If I advertise that "borshch cures cancer" and Kent buys some borshch
>from me, and dies from cancer anyway, then what's the basis for the
>gubmint's involvement?

Fraud, which is just a special case of theift (theift by deception).

What you are selling is not borshch but a cure for cancer (which happens
to be borshch). Since your cure does not work this is seen as fraud which
is theift and thus the government steps in.

No if some disintrested 3rd party claims that borshch cures cancer, and
you sell borshch, there is no fraud if the borshch does not cure cancer as
you are just selling borshch which is all the you claimed it was. The 3rd
party is not guilty of fraud as they have not entered into any contractual
agreement with the buyer of the borshch.

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