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Steve Linford  
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 More options Aug 4 1998, 3:00 am
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From: st...@combat.uxn.com (Steve Linford)
Date: 1998/08/04
Subject: Re: TCPS
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In article <35c6f468.4125...@news.texas.net>,
cclen...@texas.net (Chas. H.  Clendenen) wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Aug 1998 08:30:43 +0000, st...@combat.uxn.com (Steve Linford) wrote:

> >In article <6q6295$pd...@winter.news.erols.com>,
> >"Glen Harman" <ghar...@erols.com> wrote:

> ...
> >I'm sure we'd all participate in a sig-banner, but the website bit won't
> >work - UUNET will immediately sue the owner of the website for trade libel
> >(they don't sue spammers, but they sue anti-spammers at the drop of a
> >hat!).

> >Steve Linford

> I am no fan of UU.NET, but that's a new one on me.  It is hard to make UU.NET's
> hat any darker, but I do not want to cede any moral high ground by making
> baseless accusations.  Please cite an example of UU.NET suing or threatening to
> sue an anti-spammer.

If you give me a day or two I'll scan two documents from UUNET's lawyers
(with so many lawyers names on them they had to print in 5pt to get them
all on) both threatening to sue me for "substantial damages"; one is 4
pages of heavy legal threats for having a banner on one of my sites which
reffered to them as "SpamUNet" (hence a Trade Libel lawsuit).

From that I guessed I wasn't dealing with a normal company so I took the
banner down and replaced it with the words "OK, But tell UUNET to stop
spamming us then". That produced another brown envelope with 2 pages of
heavy legal threats, they did not like the words "spam" and "UUNET" in the
same sentence and again threatened to take me to court "for substantial
damages" unless I removed every reference to UUNET from my page. This is
the company you are dealing with. That's why everyone needs to be careful
what you say about UUNET on web sites.

Steve Linford


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