Re: Eugene Kashpureff's Defense Fund

[Karl Denninger <karl () mcs net>]

On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 12:51:04AM -0500, John Curran wrote:
> At 11:25 PM 11/24/97 -0600, Tim Salo wrote:
> > Some well-written papers (briefs) about the dangers posed by those
> > who threaten the Internet infrastructure may be useful in this case.
>
> Please don't...  we can be certain that there will be an 
> abundance of folks bringing that perspective to the court
> and more stones are not going to help anyone at this point.
>
> /John
>
> p.s.  Mind you, if someone else now goes after the infrastructure
>       (having seen the potential consequences of their action)
>       *then* we put pen to paper and ensure their obliteration...

I happen to agree with John here.

As much I don't like Eugene, and as much as I believe that he deliberately
undermined what could have been a true open-market replacement to the IAHC
process, I *still* won't return the favor by filing a brief of that type
in this case.

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