RE: Aquatic Plants Digest V5 #378

["Gregory Gooden (Annex)" <ggooden at annex_net>]

It's a shame he needed to file even a THIRD lawsuit (will it never
end?).. 

I DID have to respond, though, and say that I'm not one of those who
would stand up and clap if slashdotters take his site down, but not
mine... I mean, to me this isn't about such things.. Slashdotters don't
always act rationally.. This isn't a conspiracy and slashdot is not a
gun to point at psw... 

Novack's legal harassment will certainly bring about some consequences
he won't enjoy (I've never been so sure of that now..), but I'm not sure
Slashdot is the right deliverer of justice.. The COURTS are (and they
will be... Grin). 

And to think he could STILL just drop all this nonsense.. It MUST be
getting hotter for him!

Gregory 

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> Date: 03 Oct 2002 16:06:36 -0400
> From: "Ikari Gendou" <rva0qvm001 at sneakemail_com>
> Subject: PetsWarehouse successfully Slashdotted.
> 
> My Slashdot story went up a couple hours ago:
> 
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/03/1239211&commentsort=3
> 
> (If that URL gets mangled, just go to Slashdot.org and look 
> on the front page.)
> 
> Not surprisingly, it's the most active story on Slashdot 
> right now.  500+ comments in just a few hours is high, even 
> for Slashdot, especially during the late morning and early 
> afternoon.  Slashdotters LOVE getting sideways on people who 
> try to stiffle free speech or otherwise do stupid stuff.
> 
> Also, PetsWarehouse.com has been smashed into the ground by 
> the Slashdot Effect once again, even worse than the last time 
> Slashdot linked to it in April.  Maybe a full day or more of 
> lost revenue will make Mr. Novak reconsider the amount of 
> money to be made from his "hobby".
> 
> Petsforum.com and Thedefensefund.org seem to be holding up 
> nicely to the /. effect.  It's good that they're up and 
> PetsWarehouse is down!  :)
> 
> I'm not an "insider" on this case, so I hope my story didn't 
> mangle the facts in any major ways.  I did the best I could 
> to write a summary using available information that would 
> push enough buttons with the /. editors to get them to post it.
> 
> I think I should get bonus points for including a mailto: 
> link to one of Novak's e-mail addresses.  Slashdotters tend 
> to be the most fanatical, malicious, and vindictive people 
> around when it comes to fighting against injustice.  Also, 
> Slashdot is farmed heavily by spambots.  Add those together, 
> and Novak is going to be getting a LOT of e-mail.
> 
> Some good quotes from /. comments:
> 
> "Be careful what you say about Mr. Novak.  Remember, he's in 
> the business of suing people, so be sure not to accuse the 
> no-good, rat-bastard, slimy, underhanded, weaseling, gutless 
> scumbag of doing anything improper."
> 
> "Whoops...did I accidentally reconfigure our company's 
> performance testing environment load generators to point 
> outbound to the internet instead of inbound? I hope somebody 
> can sustain 2000 additional user sessions per minute... :)"
> 
> "This is good news.  Now he's suing people that can actually 
> afford to fight back. I hope he gets the pants beaten off of 
> him by Google's lawyers."
> 
> "He made a big mistake this time. Google is going to kick his 
> ass and countersue and before we know it we're going to see 
> "PetsWarehouse.com now owned by Google". Right now I'm 
> assembling a ravenous, drooling, insane mob of /. 
> firstposters to go down to his store and rough him up."
> 
> "One day, a man was hit by a bicycle. The man got so angry, 
> he demanded the cyclist pay him five dollars. And the cyclist 
> did so because he was too busy to argue.  Then the man 
> thought 'Maybe I should throw myself in from of another 
> bicycle to get five dollars'. And so he did.  Five bicycles 
> later, he thinks 'If I get five dollars from bicycles, I can 
> get twenty from cars'. And he threw himself into on comming 
> trafic.  And was squashed by a pickup truck."
> 
> "Pets Warehouse.  Wonderfull name. Brings to mind a large 
> building stuffed with pets from top to bottom. Hi-Lo's and 
> Forklifts shuffling boxes of animals about. Over in the far 
> rear corner is the "Scratch and Dent" bin full of great bargains."
> 
> Well, there are a few hundred other comments there, and it's 
> going to take a while to read them all.  Have a good day.  Tee hee!!!