[8974] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Threats ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Tue Dec 14 09:38:50 1993
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 23:36:03 +0900
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@intercon.com>
To: joseph@path.net (Joseph Stroup), com-priv@psi.com, doug@digex.net
I see that you never did come right out and say that you have any proof that
Doug offered Percy or ANS 25% of Digex, only that you were on a conference
call with him and that he said that he was trying to get a T-1 for free for a
year. Guaranteed CIX connectivity (which is what you do claim was discussed
on that call) is an entire different ball of wax from the allegation that
Doug offered someone at ANS or ANS itself 25% of his company in exchange for
T-1 service.
If you have any proof of impropriety on Doug's part, I suggest you send it
along. A pointer to a u-law encoded sound file containing Doug making the
statements you claim he did will be fine. If you don't have that kind of
proof, I think it would be a good idea for you to retract those statements.
If Doug were to sue you for libel, you would need to come up with a rebuttal
to his contention that you are publicly lying about him with intent to harm
him. He doesn't have to prove a motive, but you have to prove that what you
said was correct to the best of your knowledge at the time.
Let's raise this debate above the level of mud-slinging, shall we? The
salaries of major execs at ANS was a step in the right direction, though I
honestly don't believe they are out of line with industry norms.
Oh, by the way, I don't think
I know that you have not been following this forum, so you do
not know that I have already rebutted this charge once. If I
have to keep doing it I may have to take action on it.
constitutes a threat; just a statement of fact. I'm sure that Doug is
getting kind of tired of typing this in. Unfortunately, rumors die hard...
> From: joseph@path.net (Joseph Stroup)
>
> Doug,
> First of all let me explain something to you. I keep telephone records.
> Records of conference calls etc. I also keep memo's of record & in
> certain cases for security purposes keep other records. What I am
> saying here is true. If you want to say you never told me that you
> offered Percy Foster
> 25% of the company fine. If you want to sue me, I can get you the name
> and address of my lawyer. Before I went public with any of this I made
> sure to contact other players in this arena. As you said alot of people
> are pissed at ANS. Thats un-fortunate. but don't expect me to back
> down. You also told me that you were trying to get a free T-1 for a
> year. Your right, I am not privy to what you did finally get but, I am
> privy to what you told me. As far as the CIX thing goes... lets get
> that out right now. You asked the following ANS people about guranteed
> CIX connectivity, with me on the phone. Doug, Might I remind you that I
> was the one who placed the conference call!
>
> Al W.
> Jordon B.
> John H.
> Doug H.
> Joseph S.
> I have a complete record of the call, Dates, time etc. You were also
> patched to Percy Foster at the end of the call and continued to talk.
> Get the idea. So if your upset that I talk about this - just press
> control-ALT-DEL or whatever you do on a Sun now days but, don't try to
> threaten me with legal action because thats a long dark hole I
> would love to enter.
>
> As you will see at the end of my last posting , I wish you well. Be
> smart leave it at that. And as far as Cook goes, I got sick of seeing
> the guy get the short end when no one else would come forward and talk.
> Cook is not nuts, Cook is accurate. And right now he has got a bigger
> microscope.
>
> Joseph Stroup
>
