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Subject: Re: Please don't post personal comments

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:24:30 03/19/04

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On March 17, 2004 at 21:23:02, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On March 17, 2004 at 20:56:08, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On March 17, 2004 at 20:36:09, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On March 17, 2004 at 20:24:53, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>>On March 17, 2004 at 20:12:34, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On March 17, 2004 at 19:57:49, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>So you basically say now that nothing you write in CCC by you should be taken
>>>>>serious.
>>>>>
>>>>>That ends of course all discussions.
>>>>>
>>>>>By the way, statements at electronic paper are having the same meaning in court
>>>>>like statements at real paper. The advantage of a forum is that it is easier to
>>>>>proof someone said those words and that not someone else posted them.
>>>>
>>>>I suspect that it is the opposite.  With handwriting, it can be analyzed.
>>>>Anyone can post from this workstation, and I log in with my password
>>>>automatically, so anyone can do that too.
>>>
>>>So if you go to court you first deny everything you ever said because it could
>>>be someone else?
>>>
>>>Judges and jury's do not like that.
>>
>>That is not what I said.  I said that it would be harder to prove a usenet post
>>than a written document had a certain origination.
>
>In contradiction, when a third party can proof that you posted this on usenet,
>and the message number and id number at usenet can proof this, then you have
>very hard proof from a third party, which is legal proof that you wrote it.

that is garbage.  I could post using _any_ message id, poster id and originating
host id you choose.  This is why such is not accepted in court as "factual",,,



>
>When you write a letter in paper and you want to go so far that you deny you
>wrote the letter, then i must proof that the ink is the ink from your printer
>instead of that of your neighbour?

you certainly do, in fact.




>
>So if just 1 such denial from you gets refuted you lose the entire courtcase
>basically.
>

you need to talk to an attorney rather than making this up as you go.  I have
been called as an expert witness in such cases.  I _know_ how this works...





>It is the American courtcase series i guess which show a wrong image from the
>truth.
>
>The truth is that there is a lack of judges everywhere on the planet except for
>some cases in China i guess (as the courtcase is a matter of what the party
>wants). So if you do effort to waste their time, you will feel it for sure.
>
>Denying that here cannot be taken serious.
>
>>>>>But I will take your wise words than and follow them regarding your future
>>>>>postings.
>>>>
>>>>Good advice about my postings period.  If you expect something of great value or
>>>>of weighty importance, you should definitely look elsewhere.  And I can
>>>>definitely be a whinging twit from time to time.
>>>>
>>>>>Note that i did find some postings back, which refute the words you just said
>>>>>here, but i am not here to make a hot fire. My point is clear enough i hope.
>>>>
>>>>If I have ever said something to hurt you, I sincerely apologize for it.
>>>
>>>Well the damage was financially, cheap words cannot make up for it.
>>>
>>>>>Certain people like to post about me. If you post without reasons i might do in
>>>>>future the same chessbase, schroeder, weiner and all chess companies have been
>>>>>doing so much in the past which means full scale war.
>>>>
>>>>I am not sure that I follow you here, but I think confrontation is better to
>>>>avoid than to cause.
>>>
>>>Right i just need 1 reason for a confrontation and i'll take it. that's what i
>>>said.
>>
>>People who look for trouble often end up finding it.  A terrible pity, too.
>>I think taking a softer attitude would cause many people to warm to you who do
>>not feel that way now.



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