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To: jjs_ynot who wrote (196)	12/26/1998 11:06:00 PM
From: Estimated Prophet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 242

It is very interesting, and there is a whole new specialty of law that deals in it. One issue I read about recently concerns the topic of personal jurisdiction. If a person posts or publishes information on the internet, does that mean he or she has submitted to personal jurisdiction to be sued anywhere the post could be expected to be read? Traditional jurisdiction law requires contact with the forum state, but internet "contact" defies all the old concepts of doing business in a jurisdiction or otherwise availing oneself of the jurisdiction of a court. If a post is enough to avail onself of jurisdiction, the poster can be sued anywhere it is read, theoretically, even if the poster has never been anywhere near the forum of the suit.