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From: rsweeney@dasys1.UUCP (Robert Sweeney)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Responsibility for postings.
Message-ID: <1606@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 01:43:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: dasys1.1606
Posted: Sat Oct 10 01:43:16 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Oct-87 00:17:58 EDT
Reply-To: rsweeney@dasys1.UUCP (Robert Sweeney)
Organization: The Big Electric Cat, NYC
Lines: 29
Keywords: meaningless speculation
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In article <2294@umn-cs.UUCP> davidli@umn-cs.UUCP (Dave Meile) writes:
>I am getting rather tired of all of this rather meaningless speculation.
>If everyone is so scared of the possible outcomes, we should force a test
>case to get it over with once and for all....  

But not with us, please.  'dasys1' (The Big Electric Cat; the system from
which the libelous article was allegedly posted) is owned and operated by
two college students, myself, and the person who received the phone call
from Mr. Lippman regarding the lawsuit.  Our personal budgets are typical
of the average college student.  Any extra money we make is piped into the
system, for the most part, and day-to-day system expenses are covered by the
support fees the users of the Cat send in.  We can't afford to handle any
sort of legal action; we definately can't hire a lawyer.  If we're sued
(and the lawsuit alleges something which I can't just drive over to Clarence
Town Court and debunk), we'll just shut down, thus depriving many net
users of their access point (although not MES; he has access to several
public machines around the country).

I really don't see the point in all of this.  Let the article expire, and
be done with it.  Mr. Lippman claims slander, however it seems that his
outburst regarding the situation has prompted far more negative opinion
among netreaders than anything contained in the original posting could
possibly have.  (assuming that it was libelous at all; I don't generally
read soc.women, which is the group I assume the message was posted to).

-- 
Robert Sweeney              {sun!hoptoad,cmcl2!phri}!dasys1!rsweeney
Big Electric Cat Public Access Unix (212) 879-9031 - System Operator
"You crossed my line of death!"