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To: epicure who wrote (56460)	9/2/2002 12:54:00 AM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

No, I didn't look up any precedents. But I did read the statutes on harrassment quite carefully, and I don't think it's possible to harrass an alias. They would have had to sue here in Washington; I don't know whether they could have gotten federal jurisdiction under diversity; don't think they could have made the pleading limit. But in any case, they would have had to apply Washington law. There might be some law on harrassement by email, I don't know, but email is a very different thing than a chat room using an alias. So yes, it would have been fun to argue, but I wasn't worried.