A rights violation?

From: AL
Sent: Tuesday
To: Walter Block
Subject: A note of caution

Dear Walter,

Long story short, there is some crazy person who has been forging emails with my name and email address. (Please see postscript if you are interested in the background.)

If you receive any email that appears to be from me but looks suspicious, please check with me.

By the way, I wonder if such acts violate the non-aggression principle? Thanks a lot!

AL

P.S. There is this “fan girl” whom I have never known, never met and never talked to. I did not even know of her existence until she suddenly wrote me several hundred love letters. I just ignored her completely. Then she sent me some criminal threats in an attempt to force me to reply. I reported her to the police. She also mentioned in her letters that she has some mental problems. Recently, I discovered that she has been pretending to be me sending out emails (as you may know, there are some websites that enable one to forge emails that appear to be coming from a given email address).

Dear AL:

Wow; I’m sorry about this weird plight you find yourself enmeshed in. Do be careful. Does this violate your rights? Yes, most certainly it does:

Block, Walter, Stephan Kinsella and Roy Whitehead. 2006. “The duty to defend advertising injuries caused by junk faxes: an analysis of privacy, spam, detection and blackmail.” Whittier Law Review, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 925-949; http://www.walterblock.com/wp-content/uploads/publications/block-etal_spam_whittier-2006.pdf; http://www.walterblock.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/faxesduty.pdf

Best regards,

Walter

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12:53 pm on May 1, 2016