From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 03:32:38 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Fred Cohen: Re: CFS and Linux
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More Fun from Fred. For those that haven't been following, he
threatened to sue me for quoting an Alice post as "Alice B. Cohen",
and threatened to have his attorneys seize the machines the
cypherpunks mailing lists run on for being part of a "criminal
conspiracy" against him.

Perry

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From: fc@all.net (Fred Cohen)
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Subject: Re: CFS and Linux
To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 13:34:49 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199512231833.NAA07171@jekyll.piermont.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at Dec 23, 95 01:33:45 pm
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> Fred Cohen writes:
> > The dollar value would be $1 plus a public apology plus all costs of the
> > suit plus my time to right the wrong (at my usual fee of course).  Of
> > course the fact that you have decided to make this posting in public
> > justifies my extensive efforts to clear my reputation which, unless you
> > apologize immediately will be surprisingly enjoyable for me.
> 
> Go and sue, Fred. Its what I have lawyers for. If you can even find an
> attorney willing to take your "case", mine will likely remind yours
> that lawyers can now be punished by the court in many jurisdictions
> for knowingly aiding in bringing frivolous suits. If you are seeking
> $1 in damages the court is especially likely to consider the whole
> thing a waste of time.

Your choice, but it's not a very nice Christmas present to find yourself
in litigation.  I'll give you till Tuesday to reconsider.  If I see the
public apology, I won't call the lawyers.

If I were you, I would talk to those lawyers of yours and get their
opinion of whether it's worth your while to be malicious toward people
in this way in exchange for defending against a law suit when all you
have to do to prevent it is apologize for what you now know to be a
falsehood.

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