[HP4GU-FAQ] Yahoo...& legal sensitivity

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

Hi:

Neil Ward wrote:

> Is there a lawyer in the house?  [I know there is <g>, I
> just wanted to say that].

Guilty as charged.  BUT, I defer completely to the other lawyer in our
group -- Heidi is an actual intellectual property lawyer.  I just buy &
sell companies & handle financings in public offerings.  Nothing
terribly useful for us.

> I imagine the problems over at Yahoo have something to do with the
> programmers tinkering with the facilities in some sort of preamble to
> the merger with e-groups.  There are just too many weird things
> happening for it to be anything else.

Makes sense to me.  They didn't have any truly believable explanation
for what had happened.  I'm also not entirely confident that they will
call me back.  But, believe me, I will keep following up on the matter.

> Having got that libellous statement off my chest, I wanted to bring
> up the fact that our archives are slightly more exposed on a public,
> and searchable, web site.  As we have made some fairly choice
> assessments of N. K. Stouffer's character, for example, could we get
> into difficulties?

Again, I'll defer to Heidi.  But, I'm not sure zoom.com is any more
public or any more troublesome than Yahoo in that regard.  People can
lurk & read our messages without joining the Club (I *think*).  I hope
I'm not speaking out of turn on that point -- I'm fairly certain we have
open archives so that people can evaluate whether to join or not (but I
could be totally making that up).  But, I'm not sure there's any real
cause for concern on those grounds. Plus, I don't honestly think anyone
has said anything truly libelous -- nasty (yes), analytical about her
claims (yes) & judgmental (yes).  But, libel . . . .well, Heidi can
answer better than I.

Penny
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