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In article <HJFV1LAiiOaxEwME@wookie.demon.co.uk>, wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk 
says...
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>In article <245033044wnr@roborat.demon.co.uk>, Dave Scott
><dave@roborat.demon.co.uk> writes
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>>How about some sort of league table of good vs.bad mentions of companies,
>>possibly publishing the results on a web page? Possibly allowing
>>submissions via the page, with some sort of rating system (say -10 to +10
>>to indicate how well the company fulfilled the order)?
>>
>>I know, it would need someone with the time, inclination and ability (not 
>>to mention a web account) to do this - but it would be _bloody_ useful.
>>Any thoughts?
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>I agree it would be useful !
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>
>Been here, done some of this...
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>A year odd ago, a couple of us started a FAQ to do this stuff. Between
>being bogged down with work and fear of persecution / prosecution if we
>screwed up the legal aspects, we never got around to publishing it,
>though I still collect info for it in the hope of putting things
>together one day.
>
>If you or anybody else wants to take our provisional stuff and give it a
>home on a web site, I think we'd go for that.
>
>We didn't go for league tables; we mostly just summarised what people
>said on the net from this and the uk.forsale newsgroup. We'd quote
>horror stories as warnings if things looked iffy, but we didn't do any
>statistical analysis.  ( On reflection I can't really see a legal proble
>here as all we are doing is summarising comments that have already been
>placed in the public domain. )
>
>I guess if we published a form for participants to complete and email to
>us each time they ordered something, we could analyse them automatically
>and mechanically generate a FAQ and HTML file showing the results.
>
>Thoughts, J/.
>-- 
>John Beardmore

Anyone know anyone in America. The first amendment would seem to protect 
anyone who posted a FAQ on an American Web Server, naming British suppliers 
who weren't delivering the goods.

It would be interesting legally, how a company would be able to sue if the 
people who set up the FAQ were based in the USA.

Any legal eagles out there willing to comment.


Paul Stancer.