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On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Matt Ghali wrote: Aah, the wonders of dropping a site somewhere in China and forgetting about it. If spammers can do it.... If you put vague enough info into WHOIS, and host the site correctly (DNS on about seven free services ought to be enough, the actual site on a couple of round-robins pointed at things like servers overseas). I didn't say it was ethical, but just think how much more money it costs the lawyers to try and find you. (Which, if you lose, they'll pass on to you -- be careful). It's about this point that I say this is why I like animals and computers and hate people. -Dan PS: Of course, Matt, for yourself, you're posting specific customer data. But the fact that they try to blame you for it tends to only strengthen your claim. On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 18:54:43 -0600, Mike Lewinski <[email protected]> wrote:In any event, after doing some googling and finding other victims of this company, I've decided to register SpecialtyTechnicalPublishersSucks.com in order to publicly document their abuses. Sooner or later someone will have the time and resources to fight them all the way- perhaps I can lend some ammo.Be very careful. After getting the serious shaft from a volkswagen dealership, I went down that path and registered goldengatevw.com and haywardvw.com, among others. I then posted a warning on them about the owners shady history and business practices ( https://matt.ethereal.net/ggvw/ ), Because of my actions, regardless of their legality or constitutional protections, I am now spending tens of thousands of dollars on legal fees defending myself from a 1.5 million dollar lawsuit. ( https://matt.ethereal.net/ggvw/mystory/ ) What I've learned about the process is that its not about who's telling the truth. It's about who's got more money to spend on lawyers. matto -- Hate fedora with a white hot burning passion right now though ... damn thing is Linux-XP(tm) -Bill Nolan 2/24/04 --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org ---------------------------
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