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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:35:57 -0500
From: Jeff Bentley <jeffbentley@mi*.co*>
To: Todd Leonard <toddl@in*.co*>, cavers@cavers.com
Subject: Re: caveworld.com
What size body bag to remove the guy?

Jeff

Todd Leonard wrote:

> >  > it's just absurd, how they're dealing with barry after using his
> >  work without permission and attributing it to someone else.  if  it
> >  were an honest mistake, they would have corrected, apologized,
> >  > and that would be the end of the story.
> >
> >  If they'd been asked/told in a professional manner, perhaps it would
> >  have been.  As it is, seems they're responding in kind.  Which,
> >  admittedly, is not professional of them.
>
> This is a true story.  A couple years ago I awoke to find that
> my apartment had been broken into.  I started looking around,
> and found the intruder hiding in my closet.  Adrenaline raging,
> I heard myself yell "GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE".
>
> Multiple choice...  The "correct" response for the intruder is:
>
>   A) Stand there and ask "What's the magic word?"
>   B) Run like hell before my fingers close around his throat.
>   C) Don't break into my apartment in the first place.
>
> I'm gonna go with C.
>
> It's just plain silly to think that Barry wouldn't be pissed off
> about somebody taking credit for his work, and sillier still to
> believe that Barry's expression of anger somehow justifies the
> continued theft of his intellectual property.  Think about it.
>
> - Todd

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