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From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
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Subject: Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings...
Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:03:23 -0500
Organization: Mount Holyoke College
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In article <C12urA.7Dw@wimsey.bc.ca> sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) writes:
>Given the importance of presenting a positive image at a large trade
>show and the $$$ spent to achieve it, you can bet that two things would
>happen. First you *would* get noticed. And second you would probably be
>escorted off the premises.

Excuse me?  Get escorted of USENIX premises for telling a USL employee
what I thought USL could do with their lawsuit?  What the hell?  Nobody
is likely to beat anybody else up over this, you know, and this /is/ a
free country, and AT&T (or Novell) is /not/ big brother.
-- 
Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu
Northampton, MA, USA