[thelist] Do I be nice or attack with legal?

[M. Hannan]

I think the "nice" way is to tell them to remove it or you will take legal 
action.  Telling Yahoo first isn't nice, telling them (the competitor) is.

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>From: "Herzog, Ari" <Ari_Herzog at Instron.com>
>Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>To: "'thelist at lists.evolt.org'" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
>Subject: RE: [thelist] Do I be nice or attack with legal?
>Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 12:29:53 -0500
>
>I quote my manager's response after sending an email
>about why we should not be nice about it:
>
>"It is better to start the nice  (low cost way) and then escalate only if
>necessary.
>I would rather spend the money on content than on lawyers. It would serve 
>us
>better
>to have them first banned from certain search engines than for them to
>withdraw
>under legal pressure. Starting with legal threats will likely only harden
>their position."
>
>
>You see what I am up against?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: M. Hannan [mailto:desmoljones at hotmail.com]
>Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 11:47 AM
>To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>Subject: Re: [thelist] Do I be nice or attack with legal?
>
>
>Have your legal dept. (or lawyer) prepare a cease and desist letter.
>There's precedent for this:
>
>http://www.gtlaw.com.au/pubs/metatags.html
>
>m@
>
>
> >From: "Herzog, Ari" <Ari_Herzog at Instron.com>
> >Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> >To: "'thelist at lists.evolt.org'" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> >Subject: [thelist] Do I be nice or attack with legal?
> >Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:36:35 -0500
> >
> >Hi all. It has been discovered several months ago that one of our
> >competitors is using
> >our patented company name in their keywords, as well as using 
>misspellings
> >of our name as well.
> >Clearly, this is against the law for search engines.
> >
> >My boss is under the impression I, being webmaster, should email their
> >webmaster
> >and their ISP about it. I feel we should have our corporate attorneys 
>send
> >them
> >a certified letter.
> >
> >Which to do?
> >
> >
> >FWIW, we just got a legal letter from THEM about changing something on 
>our
> >site as well.
> >
> >Thx,
> >Ari
> >
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