CDR: Re: New World Coffee Disparagement Sites to be Shutdown?

[David Marshall]

Lizard <lizard at mrlizard.com> writes:

> At 10:40 PM 9/13/00 -0400, Duncan Frissell wrote: 
> 
> The company is claiming breach of franchise agreement by franchisees who
> are supposedly  saying unkind things about it.  It is also claiming that
> the domain names newworldcoffefraud.com and newworldfraud.com are likely to
> confuse innocent surfers looking for coffee.
> =======
> Why, yes! When I want to look at the wares of company "X", I often go to
> www.companyxsucks.com, or www.companyxripoff.com!
> 
> Any judge who buys that line of reasoning should be impeached, on the
> grounds our Founding Fathers did not intend that the judiciary be populated
> by fungus.

Hey, now. Some of these incompetent judges are slime molds, and some
are even amoeba. Most aren't vertibrates, in any case. On the other
hand, some members of the fungus kingdom are probably more competent
than the judges in these recent cases.