> We provide space to a number of people who make, at times somewhat
>controversial statements. One such page, is
>http://www.mall-net.com/mcs/algae.html , which appears to be a series of
>quotations from scientific literature. We have verified some of these
>quotations, but not all of them. In addition, comments in an article in
>Scientific American, January 1994, page 78+, "The Toxins of Cyanobacteria"
>by W. W. Carmichael, appears to support the author's conjecture that the
>so called "blue green algae" sold in stores is a low toxicity cultivar of
>a cyano-bacteria (not even an algae!) known to cause red tide, and can be
>potentially lethal.
>
> The vendor of the product mentioned on that page states that they
>have sued the author, and is threatening to haul us in to court if that
>page is not removed within two days. (Their first threat was e-mailed to
>us in the proprietary MS Word format, which we could not read.)
>
> It further appears that many critical articles related to so called
>"blue-green algae" have been removed from the web, and entire servers shut
>down. (This could be due to normal link rot, or not.) Attempts to reach
>the author have, thus far, not been successful.
>
> I wonder if any one knows what avenues a web operator such as myself
>has regarding these problems, what kind of response to the e-mail we
>received, etc. might be reasonable.
I think it would be unwise for anyone but a qualified attorney to give you
advice on such a subject.
Barry
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Barry Lee Brisco <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Web Design & Development - Online Marketing <http://www.ToTheWeb.com>
Web portfolio at <http://www.ToTheWeb.com/portfolio.html>
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