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Technology Stocks : InfoSpace (INSP): Where GNET went! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: wogger who wrote (5003)	5/2/1999 10:11:00 PM
From: Blue Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

Wogger, No problem. I'm just fed up these internet law suits that keep popping up and comments like that lawyer made. I've always wondered this. If the reply (post) are from one person to another as they state at the top, then why couldn't anyone sued say "you were reading my mail, it didn't have your name on it." Sorry for the confusion. BLUE

To: wogger who wrote (5003)	5/2/1999 10:26:00 PM
From: RTev	Respond to of 28311

Thank you for posting the article. Perhaps it raised hackles because the same article had been posted just a few messages before. But in any case, I think it's very important to know about these kinds of things -- especially when the information comes from a source that most of us aren't likely to see. I suspect that GNET would have little liability in this proceeding -- based on the little I can discern of it from that article. But it's always a risk. They could mess up and have greater liability in the future. It's worth knowing about all those possibilities, since such suits (but not, probably, this one) can have an effect on the bottom line. That's why lawsuits that have significant consequence are mentioned in SEC financial reports. And about the larger issue: Does this suit represent some kind of threat to freedom of speech? Of course not. There is no right to defamatory speech. Never has been. GNET knows that, and deletes most messages that cross the line. We who post need to know that as well. Since we also own stock in a company that acts as a publisher, we also need to know that mistakes in that area could become costly for the company.