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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: filling out the legal list (was Re: Is USENET stagnating? (long))
Message-ID: <1989Nov10.005043.1287@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 10 Nov 89 00:50:43 GMT
References: <5134@omepd.UUCP> <36194@apple.Apple.COM> <25533CA4.10230@ateng.com> <1989Nov5.170056.9646@NCoast.ORG> <396@cs.nps.navy.mil>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <396@cs.nps.navy.mil> by jxxl@acrux (John Locke):
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| In article <X> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
| >If DEC or AT&T or (God forbid) UUNET were hit with a
| >lawsuit as a result of something on the Usenet, that would be *it*. Not only
| >would the affected company yank its net access, but other companies would
| >likely do the same in order to avoid possible future lawsuits. And the Usenet
| >would die.
| 
| It seems equally likely that DEC or AT&T or (God forbid) UUNET would fight
| back and boot the litigious scum into bankruptcy after a brief detour through
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UUNET, possibly, since it is a for-pay Usenet support system.  However, DEC
and AT&T have better things to do with their money than support the Usenet --
and corporate bean-counters would jump at the chance to lower phone bills
and/or free up system resources in one fell swoop.

++Brandon
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