On Wed, 28 May 2003 11:32:43 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 2003 03:13:14 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> If he didn't do it, then by the sending to him a copy of the misdeed >> that was done they are unjustly accusing him of committing the crime. > That's debatable. If they said to him "YOU sent out this infected > message" they could be unjustly accusing him. OTOH if they said only > that the mesage he had APPARENTLY sent was infected, then it is merely a > statement of fact, not an accusation. It is an accusation regardless. If you should ever receive an email containing a virus and saying in the "From:" header that it is from me, that information alone would not provide you with any justifiable reason for saying that I am apparently the person who sent it to you. > Wouldn't you like to know if someone was doing that under your name? I > most certainly would! >> It is a very bad idea to accuse a person of commiting a crime unless >> you have some very good evidence indicating that he probably did it. > But did they accuse him? Or did they merely advise him? I would need to > see a copy of the message that was sent to him before I could say one > way or the other. I don't know whether they accused him or whether they advised him. I haven't seen a copy of the message they sent to him. Whatever the case, they should neither have accused him nor should they have advised him. They should have simply said that they blocked the message, or perhaps they should have simply blocked the message and without even advising me of the fact that an attempt was made to send a virus to me. >> Also it is a very bad idea to commit libel because the person who has >> unjustly suffered having had his reputation damaged can have his >> lawyers take you to the cleaners for that. > So let him sue them. Then we'll be able to follow the case and find out > all the details for sure. In order to find out the details for sure, just research the lawbooks. All of the lawbooks I know about say that you can be taken to the cleaners for committing libel. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
