The mailing list messages that led to the lawsuit, according to the complaint at (http://216.168.47.67/psw/Complaint.htm): >"Thinking of buying plants from Pet Warehouse? Don't. What is crappy is >their service! And they're maybe even A bit dishonest." >"But you don't have to take my word as the last word on their horrible >service. Feeling lucky? Go ahead - try them out yourselves. After all, >it's only your time and money, right?" (Defendant Dan Resler-May 18, 2001) >"Remember petSWEARhouse, buy their plants and you'll be swearing!" (May >22, 2001) Those messages were enough to prompt Petswarehouse.com to demand, according to the complaint: > Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000.00) in compensatory damages, and Five > Million Dollars ($5,000,000.00) in punitive damages Be warned: Dare to criticize Petswarehouse.com and you could be facing $15 million in damages. -Declan ********* Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:57:33 -0400 Subject: PetsWarehouse.com $15M lawsuit against mailing list From: Paul Bissex <pb@e-scribe.com> To: <declanat_private> Message-ID: <B7A9409B.132F%pb@e-scribe.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Organization: e-scribe.com Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-UIDL: 5c8a0602b8a659af7a092b252288d21d Hi Declan, Thought you'd be interested in this. It was forwarded to me by a friend who was a member of the Aquatic Plants Digest mailing list (he is not named in the suit). I haven't read the full complaint, but as I understand it Mr. Novak is suing the admin and several individual members that mailing list for posting complaints about his business. http://216.168.47.67/psw/Default.html best pb -- Paul Bissex <pbat_private> Chief Skeptic, Purportal.com -- Your Bullshit Detection Kit voice 413.585.8095 / beep 413.290.5510 / fax 413.702.6985 46 Main Street Suite 1 Northampton MA 01060 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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