[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I wonder if 'Mandy Howard' of Parents
> United is any relation to 'Nancy Howard' who submitted this article?
> I would also like to point out that in this somewhat offensive article
> (to me, at least), neither of the Misses Howard's is entitled to use
> absolute terms like 'predator' or 'should be incarcerated for life',
> certainly without _an adjudication in a court_. My first reaction was
> to pitch the article out unused, but with the possibility there is
> some smidgen of truth herein, i.e. Kremen _was_ arrested on the
> allegations named, and his known legal problems with the 'sex.com'
> domain, etc I decided to use the article. ....PAT]
No reputable psychotherapist would blur the distinction between gays and pedophiles, much less try to make an outright connection. This is just hate-group propaganda, piggybacking on what might otherwise be an actual news story.
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Thanks for saying that ... out of curiosity, I went to look at the
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site last night for the first time in my life, to see what apparently makes it such a famous and popular site, and to find out what would make it worth fighting over, as Kremen did with that fellow who apparently tried to cybersquat on it (remember the fellow who snatched the name, got sued, and the registrar wound up getting sued also, and the lawyer who was going to get a piece of the action as his fee in the case?) I _thought_ I was going to see something really amazing, etc. Well, all I wound up seeing was a sort of poorly designed web site with a jillion links to other sites on it, all of which wanted your credit card number, etc. Over all, it was sort of boring, with slow responding links, etc. (Of course my computer is not the fastest, and to be charitable, maybe the links were so slow loading because of the millions of web users trying to get in and supply their credit card numbers, etc, but I don't think so. Of course, I did not feel very well last either, but it is hard for me to imagine some lawyer agreeing to settle for _fifteen percent_ of the action on that site in exchange for his fee, then suing the client to get that little dab of (what appeared to me to be) nothing special. I understand the registrar who got sued in that thing settled for $150 thousand. Damn! Is _any_ web site worth that kind of money? How and why? Would someone like to hijack
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from me? I'd be glad to let you do it, if there was any possibility I could 'settle out of court -- or in court, for that matter -- for $150 thousand from the transgressor. Geeze ... PAT]