Sticks & Stones May Break My Bones...
Ryan on Aug 06, 2004 6:49am
...but lawyers will always suck!
There, I said it! Now this guy can sue me too...
It seems that someone made a comment he didn\'t like on a Yahoo Message board and he replied. What followed was apparently a fury of name-calling, etc. This man attempted to learn the identities of the these people and when Yahoo provided incomplete/inaccurate information, he decided to sue.
The fact is, this isn\'t Yahoo\'s fault. Ninety-nine percent of people that sign up on these sort of message boards/IM services do so under false identity anyway. Had this *ahem* gentleman decided to to do the same, then nobody would know who he was and there wouldn\'t be any need for thinking he\'s been *slandered* and he could just anonymously limp away with his lawyer tail between his lawyer legs.
Either way, as I stated, the information that Yahoo gave him is probably as valid as they could possibly make it. He has no case in my mind. Yahoo does not require you to submit your DNA sample, home address, phone number etc, or at least does not require that to be *valid*.
In short, so someone called you a few names...someone you don\'t even know or have to work with or see everyday. Some person who was probably naked in a folding chair 2000 miles away in a chatroom called you a \"shyster\"...gimme a break...
There, I said it! Now this guy can sue me too...
It seems that someone made a comment he didn\'t like on a Yahoo Message board and he replied. What followed was apparently a fury of name-calling, etc. This man attempted to learn the identities of the these people and when Yahoo provided incomplete/inaccurate information, he decided to sue.
The fact is, this isn\'t Yahoo\'s fault. Ninety-nine percent of people that sign up on these sort of message boards/IM services do so under false identity anyway. Had this *ahem* gentleman decided to to do the same, then nobody would know who he was and there wouldn\'t be any need for thinking he\'s been *slandered* and he could just anonymously limp away with his lawyer tail between his lawyer legs.
Either way, as I stated, the information that Yahoo gave him is probably as valid as they could possibly make it. He has no case in my mind. Yahoo does not require you to submit your DNA sample, home address, phone number etc, or at least does not require that to be *valid*.
In short, so someone called you a few names...someone you don\'t even know or have to work with or see everyday. Some person who was probably naked in a folding chair 2000 miles away in a chatroom called you a \"shyster\"...gimme a break...
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