[PLUG] Now THIS is funny

[alan]

Incorporation will just give them a target.  

Besides...  The guy is a moron.  He cannot even word a proper coherent 
threat.  I wonder just what he is afraid of? An advertisement?  For his 
business?  It does not make a whole lot of sense.

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Geoff Burling wrote:

> Richard Langis on Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:53:23 wrote:
> 
> > And now they have the gall to think that they can
> > claim legal action against a non-profit for whatever they think WE did
> > wrong (by archiving a public email?).  Anyway, I'll leave the legal
> > mumbo-jumbo to the 'real' admins, but I thought this would be worth a
> > chuckle.
> >
> Uh, PLUG is *NOT* a non-profit. It is not incorporated, & simply
> refers to a group of people who meet a few times each month to discuss
> Linux & drink beer. IANAL, but it seems to me that PLUG can't be sued
> because there is no one to file charges against!
> 
> (I'm not sure this worthy correspondent[1] could prove someone like
> Dave Mandel, Paul Nelson, Dan Haskell, or myself -- who are mentioned
> on the website -- are responsible for what PLUG says or does: were
> just volunteers like Richard or our new friend posting from Phoenix,
> with no special powers. He might be able to sue Sandy for slander, but
> I'm not sure that sending an email is considered adequate legal notice
> even for that. And I doubt he's serious enough to pay a lawyer to
> litigate a case with little to no prior case law to find out who he can
> sue.)
> 
> On the other hand, this is one reason why PLUG just might want to
> bite the bullet & incorporate. Incorporatino would provide something
> of a shield from this kind of crap. As things stand now, if this worthy
> correspondent did sue someone assoicated with PLUG, & get a friendly
> judge, he could make someone's life a mess with all of the litigation &
> court procedings. :-(
> 
> Geoff
> 
> [1] Originally I had a different term for this individual, but
> after some thought I concluded that if he were truly sue-happy, why
> encourage him to sue *me* for defamation?
> 
> 
> 
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