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To: Graystone who wrote (614)	3/11/1998 5:37:00 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1614

Oooh...DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!! &#147What we need is a thread where disciplinary action that SI undertakes can be published&#133SI can send a copy of the JillKill to that thread&#133&#148 Whilst the idea is appreciated, for SI to mark out a disciplinary area could and would, IMO, invite a lot of unnecessary legal headaches&#151as in "Hey, you exposed me to public ridicule so I'll sue (despite the truth of my stupidity)." All too often you get these idiots who have mistakenly replaced their Mommy-Mommy&#153 with a lawyer. Now maybe their chance of winning is small, but legal headaches often spell h-e-a-d-a-c-h-e more than they spell legal. Let's view an example: Poster says (paraphrased): "I'm gonna sue SI because somebody is posting to me" Message 3294122 Brad of SI says (paraphrased): "Dude, chill out" Message 3295641 Ass (or elk in this case) says (paraphrased): "No, I paid for SI, I own you, and I prefer to threaten you with legal BS": Message 3298771 Message 3295741 Brad says (paraphrased): "Fine. Make my job harder so you don't get your feathers ruffled" Message 3295981 Yes, you heard right. You can join a public forum and then threaten to sue for getting a response (why join?). Mind you, SI probably has good legal counsel so it's not much of a threat anyway. But it's the complete nuisance factor of having to jump through the juris-hoops which is plain silly and unwarranted. I do, however, hate to criticize a plan without offering an alternate idea. So I'll think on it a bit (hopefully we all will). -MrB

To: Graystone who wrote (614)	3/11/1998 11:49:00 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Respond to of 1614

Egad&#151I think I got it figured out! The Oscars have their Razzies counterpart which is dedicated to films of the very worst quality. Each month we could hold the Golden Bozo Awards ceremony. To qualify for entry into "the Dorkies" you must be nominated by your peers for the lesser prize, Twit-of-the-Week. The distinction is captured by incidents such as described in my earlier post to you. We can issue little web plaques and statues. Maybe even have a big event at the end of the year celebrating the worst offender&#151I think we'll call the award ......... Mega-Streisand! yeah, that's it. Each little person can stand up and give a little acceptance speech to acknowledge their little efforts in their little minds. &#147Well first I'd like to thank everybody who got me where I am today&#151Mom, Homer, Jimmy, Satan, the producers. Gosh, I'm shocked. I just never expected to win this fabulous award...&#148 <cutaway to a close-up> Gawd, this is gonna be a spectacular! Maybe we can get Billy Crystal or Dave Spade to host the first one. The lights, the cameras, the trashy Bob Mackey sequin-'n-feathers evening gowns, the ...uh...uh...papparazzi of it all. -MrB