Re: How about an Oracle debate?

"Sybrand Bakker" <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.verwijderdit.demon.nl> wrote in message news:ldk9c01h6lcvra9dbpqbcgsr4l45kjbjmh_at_4ax.com...
> On 7 Jun 2004 12:59:18 -0700, don_at_burleson.cc (Don Burleson) wrote:
>
> >However, I've been informed that there may be a problem that I did not
> >consider, that these names don't correspond with "real" people.
> >
> >It turns out that I cannot verify that Nuno Souto, Richard Foote or
> >Howard J. Rogers actually exist. No resumes with verifiable details,
> >no photographs of any of them.
>
> Mr Burleson,
> It strikes me you are incapable to see that resorting to slander as
> the above ruins whatever credit you have build in the field.
> In fact whatever you have written, whether accurate or inaccurate,
> deserves to be thrashed, now you to need to proof or your inaccuracies
> by contributions to an international forum that should be subjected to
> legal scrutiny, as your contributions are slander.

Technically, it's libel. Slander is the spoken form. Anyway, although you may not like what he said, it does not raise to the level of libel (see New York Time Co. vs. Sullivan 1964). He has to have malice (he may) and know that what he wrote is incorrect. He has stated opinion, and reported on his research. If he actually found resumes with verifiable details or photos, and then made these claims, that would be a different story. Too bad there's no law against being an ignoramous.

> In short, Mr. Burleson, if you exist, you only deserve contempt and
> disgust.
>
>
> --
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
Received on Tue Jun 08 2004 - 09:10:23 CDT