I hit reply on a post from Sonja, and it went to her instead of the list. That's the first time that's happend to me. Anyway, here it is.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 7:29 AM Subject: Re: Some things are too good to last > "Adam C. Lipscomb" wrote: > > Well, who wrote "Corrupted-World-of-Brin-L Website:"? If listmember > > "J" uses a website to slam the list, or threatens to do so, with the > > implicit threat that some members of the list may have libelous > > information posted about them, are other listmembers not allowed to > > say anything about it? How are other listmembers supposed to react to > > that? Say nothing? > > It's an idea that might perhaps work. It hasn't been tried so far and > everything else failed. But males in general, usually aren't very good at > that. So I forgive you. ;o) You appear to ignore extemely credible evidence that has been presented on Brin-l.detailing how such a threat cannot simply be ignored. The problem with such a website with names and libel is that it is extremely visable. Let us assume that a curious person who heard about Gautam would type in his name. It is probable that it would list Jeroen's page as one of the first hits. The same is true with my name. Gautam said that his employer would require him to quit the list; they don't like conterversy. Other folks, who are looking for work, might face a situation when someone doing due dilligence might simply types their names into a search engine and comes up with that website as a hit. They might not even be told why they were not offered a job. Yes, they might not, too. But, it is not beyond the pale to expect someone to spend 3 minutes checking on the public information available on someone looking for work. I do not see how you can ask someone to have ignored your husbands threats to people's livelihoods. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
