On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
At 7:37 PM 4/10/96, Jim Byrd wrote:
The story is weirder than that. The first poster of church secrets (with lots of commentary) was Dennis Erlich, an ex-scientologist. Dennis was raided and sued, and is awaiting trial. His ISP, Tom Klemesrud, refused
His ISP was Netcom. Klemesrud respresents Netcom. [snip]
Tom does not work for Netcom or represent them, AFAIK. He is the sysop of the BBS (support.com) that Dennis uses to access the Net. The BBS gets its net feed through Netcom. CoS sued both Tom and Netcom (in addition to Dennis). They claimed that after alerting Tom and Netcom to Dennis' alleged "copyright terrorism" the ISPs should have cut off his net access. Tom refused, and Netcom didn't want to pull the plug on his whole BBS just to stop one man accused of copyright infringement. I hope I have that all straight... ______________________________________________________________________ Rich Burroughs richieb@teleport.com http://www.teleport.com/~richieb See my Blue Ribbon Page at http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/blueribbon New EF zine "cause for alarm" - http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/cause