🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:37:17 -0700, "Theo_Delight@yahoo.co.uk"
<Theo_Delight@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>On 20 Aug, 23:42, rich...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
>> In article <5itk8lF3qug0...@mid.individual.net>,
>>
>> The Todal <deadmail...@beeb.net> wrote:
>> >But he isn't.  He's an intelligent, good-humoured, helpful person, who has
>> >offered much good advice on usenet. I've met him in person. I liked him.
>>
>> But he seems to be rather unwise.  I am sure there are thousands of
>> people like me who would otherwise never have heard of him but now
>> know him only as someone who sues people who disagree with him on
>> usenet.  His lawsuits and threats may have been completely justified,
>> but have they really had the effect he wanted?
>
>Except that most of the libels over which he sued were egregiously
>vile, sordid and wholly false allegations about his personal life; to
>protect his good name and his professional status, he really had
>little option other than to sue.  Had he not done so, the number of
>people who believed such lies would probably have been many times
>greater than just a few idiots who will believe almost anything
>including the idea that one can seek libel damages over a simple
>difference of opinion.

In the case that he sued Demon over, it's *obviously* fake.

The man's just an attention seeker.