Brent was prosecuted under the Telecommunications Act, relating to the sending of an electronic message.

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Those who came of age in the "You've got mail" era can reminisce fondly about arriving home from school and checking their AOL accounts to see if anyone sent them an electronic message.

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When Bavarian prosecutors launched their investigation, CompuServe, based in Columbus, Ohio, blocked access to 200 electronic message boards for all of its then four million users worldwide, setting off an international debate over censorship on the internet.

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Or would you like a secure electronic message sent by your GP who you trust over a secure network to a booking system which would allow your booking to occur there and then and for you to change it subsequently?

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In a Twitter post, a group identifying itself as the Syrian Electronic Army took responsibility for the fake AP message.

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The most dramatic feature of electronic communication is surely its propensity to tempt us into dashing off a message in haste that we repent at leisure.

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One programming tactic is called messaging, which involves electronic documents from a Web service to a queue that then processes each message in periodic batches.

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He never posted a message, but his mere presence in the forum left an electronic signature that proved to his wife Malika al Aroud he was still alive.

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In one message, Mr Dotcom said he was working with lawyers and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which campaigns on digital rights issues, to get access to that seized data and return it to users.

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