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Date:      Thu, 1 Apr 1999 03:52:52 -0500
From:      Lee Cremeans <lee@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net>
To:        Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MicroSloth rears its ugly head once more ...
Message-ID:  <19990401035252.A70137@tidalwave.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990401113501.5291I-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>; from Narvi on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 11:36:30AM %2B0300
References:  <19990401031238.A70058@tidalwave.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990401113501.5291I-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>

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On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 11:36:30AM +0300, Narvi wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Lee Cremeans wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 05:01:19PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> > > On Thursday,  1 April 1999 at  2:29:19 -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.userfriendly.org :(
> > > 
> > > Do you have any evidence that it was Microslop?
> > 
> > Not a soul has said anything. Segfault, User Friendly, and BeDope are all
> > affected by this, and they're all disturbingly mum about it.
> > 
> > -lee...then again, this may well be one of the biggest AFJs ever
> > pulled...but we have no proof. 
> > 
> 
> If it is April fools joke, then why shut down all the pages, including the
> links page?

[DISCLAIMER: I Am Not A Lawyer. Take the legal info in this with the
requisite grain of salt.]

That's the funny part. On the one hand, it makes it look all the more
serious. On the other...it *would* seem a bit much to pull down the entire
site, instead of whatever items offended the plaintiffs...in most
IP-infringment cases, all you have to do to comply is to pull down whatever
material is named in the cease and desist letter, and prove you did it. I
don't know about other civil cases, though. 

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