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- From: lamontg@stein.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Scientific Truth Is Not Found in Threats
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 08:41:45 GMT
- Organization: 'Operation: Mindcrime'
- Lines: 36
- Message-ID: <1hubo9INN7j3@shelley.u.washington.edu>
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-
- This is rather amusing...
-
- >In article <BzuF2v.8MD@well.sf.ca.us>, sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack
- >Sarfatti) wrote in alt.sci.pyhsics.new theories:
- >> Mr. Wolff,
- >> Be advised that I am checking your credit for assets and it is my intention
- >> to bring a lawsuit for malicious slander, libel and defamation of character
- >> against you personally and against your employer Computervision.
-
- Better work much harder on your evidence...
-
- >> Your have screwed yourself, wiseguy, by your remark:
- >> "I've also taken the liberty of putting a few of your words in all-caps."
- >> whose intent and implication is to portray me as a crackpot by willful
- >> malicious distortion of my actual text which is, I assume, privileged
- >> intellectual property.
-
- >> At the very least you have displayed poor judgement in your Employer's eyes
- >> by using their
- >> id and making hem party to a very interesting lawsuit breaking new ground
- >> in the protection of
- >> intellectual property on usenet.
-
- Jack, you are one seriously clueless fuck [*]. Anything posted over the net
- immediately enters the public domain unless the appropriate copywrite
- notices are attached to it ("only for posting to the net, not for
- re-publication, etc, blah blah blah").
-
- [*] Note: this isn't slander, libel, or defamation of character -- its
- just an insult.
-
- --
- Lamont Granquist lamontg@u.washington.edu
- "When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases."
- -- Robert Anton Wilson
-