Janice, there certainly are many people to thank. Obviously there's the core group of you, Bill, Salem, Scion, and Sublime, who were all actively involved with talking to Esther Horwich, the MA attorney. If not for the extensive Janice Shell archives and around the clock work ethic, proving Dobry in no uncertain terms perjured himself by denying the use of certain aliases, he and his "benefactor" might have chosen to prolong the witch-hunt.
Silicon Investor should also be thanked for making Dobry have to justify each name on his list. I'd like to think they'd have done that, as AOL does, regardless of the TMRT ruling, but who knows. Therefore, we should also thank the TMRT defendants and the ACLU for making life much easier for John Does that have come after them.
No thanks at all go to Lycos/Raging Bull. They claim it's too much trouble for their scant legal staff to have to deal with subpoenas. This from a multi-million dollar publicly traded company that exists solely because of the Internet. Companies that don't stick up for their members are doomed to fail. It's only a matter of time before Raging Bull members make a mass exodus to iHUB.
- Jeff |
