10 Oct
2001
10 Oct
'01
12:55 a.m.
At 09:30 PM 10/9/01 -0700, Tim May wrote:
2. Enforcement. Having a tape is not very useful. (Declan says some court rulings say that verbal agreements are binding, but this presumes that one would bother to sue, hire the lawyers, and see it through. I know I wouldn't. I'd rather pay $5000 to have a lying journalist whacked than spend a hundred thousand bucks fighting AOL Time Warner or General Electric and, probably, losing.)
Yes in general it sounds about as much fun as a subpeona to Washington state in winter.