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From: jgd@convex.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick)
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Subject: Re: IDG Hackers
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Date: 27 Nov 90 06:56:08 GMT
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>> magazine, prompted two Staten Island, N.Y., teen-age brothers to break
>> into the telephone mail system at International Data Group's
>> Peterborough, N.H., office - where Gamepro is published - and cause
>> $2.4 million worth of damage.

> I wonder how likely that figure is to shrink under the gaze of a
> competent defense lawyer 

> [Moderator's Note: Suppose the damage was only $24,000; or $240, or
> $24.  Then what?   PAT]

To the Moderator, re: your comments...

I have no sympathy for the "teen-age brothers" who allegedly trashed
the phone mail system -- if they are guilty they must pay the
consequences.  And perhaps be made examples of.  [Cheee...  am I in a
vindictive mood this morning, or what?  :-) ]

However, I agree with the poster, Mr. Izenberg, about the "spector of
Bellsouth".  It will be interesting to see how much the claimed monetary
damages have been "inflated".  [I find the $2.4 million hard to swallow.]


John G Dobnick  (JGD2)
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