"Ignoramus16571" wrote in message
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On 2009-09-17, Ed Huntress wrote:

It sounds more like he's trying to keep himself employed, out of trouble
with the IRS and the law, and married. d8-)

Have you ever been dragged into court over something you've said on a
newsgroup? I have. I was hauled in as a witness in a half-million-dollar
lawsuit four years ago (I wasn't being sued; my former employer was), and
two messages I posted here about eight years ago became pivotal in the
suit.
I sweated it, and I was *really* glad that I'm not a bull****ter, like
some
of the folks here. Truth became the issue, and what I had said was
truthful.
(The case was thrown out after four days of testimony, FWIW).

15 years ago, a certain USENET kook sent numerous faxes to my
employer, demanding that I be fired immediately because "I defamed
him and his patents".

I was not fired for a very simple reason, my employer needed me to
maintain and enhance the software that I wrote. I did not like it, but
did not sweat it too much because I was not married, my only fixed
expense was apartment rental, and I was sure that I could find another
job.

i

In my case I didn't sweat it because the company being sued was all but out
of business, and I had left a couple of years earlier. But it could have
been ugly if I had played loose with the facts.

These entire NG and blog businesses are cornucopias for people who want to
make trouble.

--
Ed Huntress