Date:         Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:59:02 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      HEAR HEAR! was Re: ETKA distro - Let's put up a distribution
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Comments: To: Sean Garrett <SEAN.GARRETT@ASU.EDU>
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At 11:55 AM 11/25/2003, Sean Garrett wrote:
>BAD idea, I smell lawsuit and implications to newsgroups and their owners.
>This could impact owners and members of newsgroups.
>
>You guys should be a little more discrete and take this off list. Don't
>forget its copywrited material protected by those laws.

<dang,trying to make a discrete/discreet pun and can't find it -- oh, the
trials of an author...>

Listen up, people.  Sean speaks truth.
<unmince words>
I've been watching this with disbelief...I know you people aren't stupid
but it's sure hard to tell sometimes.  Where the heck is my
clue-by-four?  FIRST PRINCIPLE OF PARANOIA: If you're doing something
illegal, immoral, fattening -- whatever -- DO IT AND SHUT UP ABOUT IT, OR
DON'T DO IT.  That's simple self-preservation and it also keeps your
friends from the line of fire.  And if you want to KEEP your friends don't
take their stuff and glue it to the stick you use to poke the policeman
with.  Or compile their material together with highly visible highly
corporate stuff of impeccable illegality.  Perish the thought!
</unmince>

And if you discover somehow that a resource of...say...Family Pictures <g>
is of possible interest -- well, a rumor is a rumour is a roomer and won't
come home to roost.  Them that have ears, let them hear, and them that are
a bit hard of hearing let them pass safely by on the other side.  Cf. the
[informal] concept of "official notice" in military discipline -- there's
an excellent example in one of Adm. Gallery's books of reminiscence, likely
the one about capturing the U505.  Had to do with a watch posted outside
his [aircraft carrier skipper] quarters at night and the considerable
consequences if said watch should be found to be napping during
wartime.  Gallery had a chair placed in such a way that it was impossible
to leave his quarters without tripping over the watch's legs...if they were
still there to be tripped over by the time he got the door open.

Just passing through, nothing to do with me mate, it was two other guys,
the jug was already broken when I got it, it was fine when I gave it back...

cheesh,
d