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Subject: Re: Now it's clear that Ritter Rost's post is not a fake

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 08:50:02 04/12/00

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On April 11, 2000 at 17:30:10, Bertil Eklund wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I believe it's legal to post this letter at least in Sweden and Europe.
>1. It's not a private e-mail it's from a company

That doesn't make it a public e-mail.  It's still private.  (AFAIK an
organization has pretty much the same status as a person.)

>2.Threats against an organisation

You may consult with a lawyer or the police service in your jurisdiction to
determine whether a "threat" has been made.

>3.Threats against a private person.

Ditto.

>4. Accusations against another company, of course this company could take legal
>actions against this letter.

You may consult with a lawyer or the police service in your jurisdiction to
determine whether defamation has taken place.  If so, there will be some legal
mechanism that allows you to provide the contents of the letter to that other
company.

You can email ChessBase and tell them that so-and-so is maligning their company,
and let them worry about it from there -- without quoting the letter.

>Note I haven't published the letter.

Noted.

This whole issue is quite the pile of crap.  If auto-232 was junked, and
proprietary autoplayers were not accepted for testing purposes, then the issue
of attempting to hinder review of a product or service would be front and
centre, and look pretty bad on the offending company, as opposed to the current
situation where the beef may be quite legitimate because auto-232 is known to
have its share of problems.

>Bertil

Dave



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