IP: more on DOJ MS comments include porn, spam, rants, little of substance

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 20:17:45 -0600
> From: Steve Cohen <stevecoh1@attbi.com>
> To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>
> I don't like the tone of this at all.
> 1.  The fact that spammers, porno distributors and other vermin stuffed 
> this mailbox says precisely NOTHING about the citizens who did reply, any 
> more than it says anything about me when my mailbox gets similarly stuffed.
>
> 2.  It would have been mildly interesting to know if the form letters came 
> down heavily on one side or the other but they don't tell us that 
> particular detail.
>
> 3.  Those of us citizens who did take the time to reply do not deserve to 
> have our contributions belittled as "not substantive".  We may not be 
> lawyers but we had something to say and we are certainly not responsible 
> for having made arguments that duplicate those made by other citizens.
>
> The whole thing has an odor of "we shouldn't have to wade through this 
> garbage but the law makes us do it."  Whoever wrote this doesn't sound 
> like they have the slightest intention of paying serious attention to any 
> of the arguments made, a kind of been-there-done-that boredom that is 
> totally unjustified by the lack of quality shown in this rush-rush settlement
>
> That's tough.  It's the law.

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