On 2005-05-01, Tim K. wrote:

The threat of lawsuit on usenet is almost as laughable as the threat of an
ass-whuppin'. I remember some clown threatening to sue me because I called
his crop-circle research "junk science". I'm still waiting for the papers,
5 years later.

I forgot to mention my Sekrit Conspiracy to encourage people to bring
frivolous lawsuits. Judges need light relief, too... ;-)

In all seriousness, though, it is something people should be aware of;
there's a hell of a lot of boundaries which haven't been determined yet,
and a lot of misapprehensions over what the old boundaries ever were.

Not that there's ever much risk of a suit coming out of usenet, but...

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-Andrew Gray