My one fear (being in the US) is preventing frivolous libel suits because of the 'public' nature of the postings. If there's a lawyer out there who could advise us, would we be wise to avoid names (of companies and company reps except in 1-1 emails)? Or is even the latter something to be avoided?
>Dennis
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> At 11:54 14/06/1999 -0400, Srikanth Narra wrote:
> >Joop
> >
> >Between Dennis, myself and couple of other members, may be can help other
> >individual domain name owners who face haressment with domain name vs.
> >trademark issue in our own little ways. (Beware :- We are not attorney's !)
> >
> >We have been thru it and it was hell to go thru - more so because we did not
> >know whom to turn to. I am pretty sure more will turn up at IDNO as we
> >ourselves did.
> >
> >If anyone wants to share experiences they had and want other members to
> >avoid some pitfalls they faced - lend a shoulder or need a shoulder to lean
> >on - feel free to drop me/Joop an e-mail. I will add an other section in
> >the volunteer list - Domain name disputes helplist.
> >
> >We can post summarise to the list once in a while to keep others on the list
> >posted on happenings - that way - we help as many as we can without
> >distracting from our main work.
> >
> >Will that be ok ?
> >
> More than O.K. This is a very good idea and , with permission I would
> like to devote a special section of our website to "horror stories", so
> that people who have been through it can make the best strategies know to
> others.
> I am sure the attorneys on this list , and Mikki Barry, who just joined us
> (3 cheers) will pay special attention to your cases.
> --Joop Teernstra LL.M.-- , bootstrap of
> the Cyberspace Association,
> the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
> http://www.idno.org
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