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Posted By: The Roadie <wcarton@flash.net> In Response To: Re: Linda Christas Help Desk: Response and Availability (Tim: Linda Christas Help Desk Parent Volunteer)
Tuesday, 2 August 2005, at 10:36 a.m.
> Sure, it's the right of the hostess, M, to be as unfair as you wish, to
> use your "private property" as you wish. But, if you are truly
> after the truth, why not ask the School directly rather than hiding under
> the leaves.
OK, and you might have to ask your IT person to come up with the details, do you help desk volunteers log into some central server, and THEN use Google to find out what forums are discussing Linda Christas?
Remember, these forum postings are not email. You have to come here by way of a web interface. Are you being told to not visit these forums using your own web browser, but to log into the central server first?
> As someone indicated before, it's pretty hard to survive the law suits
> that would be forthcoming if the endorsements at www.lindachristas.org
> were phony.
OK, that begs the question. When somebody posted a part of the LC web site on their blog to comment on it, they were met with a demand letter that it was a copyright violation for them to do that. Even though excerpts from copyrighted items is allowed for non-commercial use for education and comments.
http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=1884
http://ramblingtaoist.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_ramblingtaoist_archive.html
I don't suppose I have a lot of comments on your mission, business, or the way you recruit new "advisors".
It's about the chilling effect that your searching out for forums who are talking about you has. Actually, posting and keeping up the message count just raises the Google ranking of sites like this and ramblingtaoist.blogspot.com, so you would be much better off just ceasing the project.
> Try it, M, Just go ahead and choose any celebrity you wish. Then post his
> or her picture on your site without permission, and see what happens. It
> won't be pretty. (Barbra Streisand sued a guy for 15 million for just
> putting a photo of her home on the net.
That was a commercial use, not a "fair use" wasn't it?
> If there is anything remaining of integrity here, I am going to post the
> Linda Christas references. Let's see if they stay up. They should, if you
> are interested in fairness, M.
I don't care about her references, because I'm not in the market for her services. I would love to get answers to the questions above.
1) Do you all log into a central proxy server to surf the web and look for mention of her name?
2) Is it her policy to threaten lawsuits against people attempting an honest evaluation of the programs?
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