I thought people would love to see this. Note especially "Dr." Fred's threat to have toad.com confiscated as part of a conspiracy against his reputation. Perry ------- Forwarded Message From: fc@all.net (Fred Cohen) Message-Id: <9512231757.AA22460@all.net> Subject: Re: CFS and Linux To: perry@piermont.com Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 12:57:40 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199512231733.MAA07103@jekyll.piermont.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at Dec 23, 95 12:33:15 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text X-UIDL: 819742624.003
Fred Cohen writes to me in private:
Alice B. Cohen writes:
If you mean to imply that I am Alice, that constitutes slander, and I will sue.
I'd love to see you try. Please, sue me immediately.
Since you agree in public with Alice practically all the time, the damages would be fascinating to assess. "Your honor, my client, who has no reputation in the group we are discussing to speak of, feels that by being publically conflated with this anonymous personage who's opinions he univerasally agrees with that his reputation has been damaged, since, well, er, we aren't sure why, but it has. I mean, people might ascribe opinions to him that he claims to hold! Obviously that must be damaging!"
To the contrary, I have a very good global reputation, and you are knowingly and maliciously attempting to slander me by claiming that I use a false identity to support my positions.
What would the monetary damages be, Fred? I mean, there are some people here who would gain a bit of added respect for you since being Alice would imply that you knew how to use anonymous remailers, so there would be some evidence that you could do *something*, which many people here had in doubt up until now. I suspect you actually gain reputation that way, so perhaps I should sue you for unjust enrichment. (*)
Let's see. I guess I would start by having the police confiscate the toad.com computers becfause thay are part of a criminal conspiracy to daamage my reputation. Criminal because of the recent changes in the law that prohibit you from sending me information I don't want to get. 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. - -> See: Info-Sec Heaven at URL http://all.net/ Management Analytics - 216-686-0090 - PO Box 1480, Hudson, OH 44236 ------- End of Forwarded Message