CompuServe Messages

Bob, Yes and no. There's a difference between the semantic and legal definitions of libel. If you were to say that about me (too young for the first and "no comment" for the second <grin>) it would more than likely be a libelous statement semantically … My Webster's New World defines libel as "any written or printed matter tending to injure a person's reputation unjustly". Legally, I'd have to prove that you not only said it, that it indeed injured my reputation, but that you did it maliciously — the last point can be tough to prove.