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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: one_less who wrote (12291)5/7/2002 10:36:35 AM
From: E  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
There was no harm. No complications of the sort you mention. A goof, was all.

I know others who've done it. There was a free sign up time; you could nominate someone else for membership. A bunch of people did it on impulse then. Yes, I'd think there would be a statute of limitations, too; that the fact that it was a prank w/o a victim would count; and that administrative discretion would suggest that 15 days was rather extreme. But it's not huge deal in itself: it's the context of the penalty that I call ironical.

The irony to me is that Poet has begged SI many times over these last months for help. St. Bill has also begged them for help. SI Jeff's position ever since the threat by a certain poster to sue them if they didn't allow him to keep posting to and about Poet is that if she and St. Bill feel the law is being broken, they have to pursue legal action.

IMO, that lawsuit threat, following which SI Jeff explained that he had to lift the toorabout (which left Poet and her husband with no assistance except through the law, against a lawyer who can represent himself free), answers this question of yours:

Why has SI been so quiet on the other major issue that is consuming the majority of at least two other threads.

CH denies being the informant.
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