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Subject:Re: Bad Employers/Clients List??? From:"Parks, Beverly" <ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Fri, 2 May 1997 09:52:41 -0700
>Jonathan Leer[SMTP:jleer -at- LTC -dot- MV -dot- COM] writes:
>>>What is litigious about all this? If you simply report that somebody had =
trouble with a company, it is simply a statement. It isn't slander.<<
I've got a few disparate thoughts:
Thought 1: Regarding what Jon said above: As long as it's true. How
would you verify the information?
Thought 2: Maybe instead of textual details the site could have some
sort of numerical ratings in a variety of categories.
Thought 3: Is it so different than the restaurant critiques you find in
>newspapers?
Thought 4: Should I have said "different from" instead of "different
than"?
Bev
parksb -at- emh1 -dot- hqisec -dot- army -dot- mil
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