Re: Specialty Technical Publishers
Invoicing for unsolicited materials is commonly referred to as mail fraud hereabouts. The courts have consistently upheld the notion that such materials can be considered gifts. IANAL but I would advise /dev/nulling all further correspondence from these losers. -- MAB On Aug 18, 2004, at 18:36, Mike Lewinski wrote: Has anyone else has run into these scumbags? Sometime last winter I received a call along the lines of We'd like to send you some materials to review. Well, they sent some Internet Law encyclopedia along with an invoice for ~$700. Of course, there was no cost mentioned in the sales call- for all I knew they were going to send me a brochure about their product. I can say with 100% certainty that I would never have authorized them to send me something like this had they mentioned the cost without much further discussion as to what I was receiving. This is just a general heads-up to a sleazy business practice for a sleazy company that is now attempting to extort money.
Re: OT: Re: Critters
On Jul 9, 2004, at 09:29, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: My first daughter's pet rabbit re-wired my apartment network, power and data. At SRI in Menlo Park, the squirrels were always keen for that tasty grey cable whenever it was run where they could get it. I wish I had a moose-and-cable story. Sorry. Bunnies are hard wired (no pun intended) to do that. To them, wires running along a baseboard are unwanted roots intruding upon their well maintained(?) burrows. --MAB
Re: Where fiber goes, backhoes soon follow: Camp Doha fiber link
On Monday 31 March 2003 14:18, Sean Donelan wrote: This will give us a bigger, more reliable pipe for a lot more bandwidth that we don't have to push through satellites, he said, declining to provide specific details on the size of the pipe. isn't that what this war is all about? Proving who has the bigger pipe George Bush or Saddam Hussein? -- The irony of modern conservatives and economic libertarians is that they want to take the economic system that defeated communism and replace it with the one that spawned it.
