Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!yetti!geac!daveb From: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown) Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal Subject: Re: Suing usenet? (Re: Responsibility for postings.) Message-ID: <1604@geac.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 15:44:49 EDT Article-I.D.: geac.1604 Posted: Tue Oct 13 15:44:49 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Oct-87 05:11:34 EDT References: <4611@videovax.Tek.COM> <2488@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <2679@xanth.UUCP> <4614@videovax.Tek.COM> <467@brandx.rutgers.edu> Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown) Organization: The little blue rock next to that twinkly star. Lines: 27 Xref: mnetor news.admin:1162 misc.legal:3106 In article <467@brandx.rutgers.edu> webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) writes: | [list of quasi-competitors to usenet] |All of these groups don't rent lawyers, they own them. They regularly |use those lawyers as a part of corporate strategy to maximize profit. | |Now, you tell me that they don't even have to go to court, just file |papers and their troubles will be over. And you think the big threat |is participants in a flame war over on soc.women????????????????????? Real companies restrict legal actions to situations where: 1) the absolute cost is low enough to budget for, 2) the advantage of a win is significant, and 3) the suit will not be seen as an attempt to use the courts to establish competitive advantage. The last is what kept one of our local shysters from starting a suit against a supplier of goods/services to him: even though he could put the supplier out of business by a bit of carefully-applied barratry (which see), he would have run too great a risk of having the local bar association burn him at the stake. If he was an employee, the state tends to do the stakeing... -- David Collier-Brown. {mnetor|yetti|utgpu}!geac!daveb Geac Computers International Inc., | Computer Science loses its 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, | memory (if not its mind) CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 | every 6 months.