Gotti, evidence, case law, remailer practices, civil cases, civilit

[Aimee Farr]

I think Uni was merely making a humorous note on Tim's prodding him to
brief. I detected a sly grin.

~Aimee

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cypherpunks at lne.com [mailto:owner-cypherpunks at lne.com]On
> Behalf Of An Metet
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 9:10 PM
> To: cypherpunks at lne.com
> Subject: Re: Gotti, evidence, case law, remailer practices, civil cases,
> civilit
>
>
> Black Unicorn, esquire, wrote:
> > (Lesson for other posters- to get legal research for free out of
> > Uni, just insult him a lot)...
> >
> > ...Seriously interested researchers will spend time at the library,
> > look up statutes and learn to Shepardize.  I happened to be at the
> > law library for an unrelated matter so I wasted 90 minutes looking
> > this silliness up for you and the list Mr. May.  I herewith submit
> > my invoice, payable on receipt, for more civil treatment, for
> > services rendered.
>
> Many people on and off this list have spent a lot more than 90 minutes
> researching things, writing posts, writing code, solving math
> problems, etc., etc.  Tim May in particular has written thousands of
> pages of high quality or entertaining work.
>
> Your complaints about "free research" suggest that you have the sense
> that you are more valuable than or superior to other contributors.
> While this is couched in civility, one could conclude that this is an
> insult, something along the lines of "of course geeks should work for
> free, but I'm a lawyer!"  It's a free world, but it might work better
> not to insult people, even if the insult is slightly veiled.
>
> (Your spoliation posts have been interesting.  Thank you for writing
> them.)