VERANT FINALLY NOTICES LUM, EXERCISES ITS EXCELLENT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SKILLS

I just got this in the mail:

From: John Smedley <jsmedley@verant.com>
To: <lum@webtoys.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 11:27 AM
Subject: Kindly take the Guide Manual Down

Kindly take the Guide Manual down. It is Copyright Material and you are in violation of Federal Copyright Provisions. Please do so within the next 24 hours.

John Smedley
President and CEO
Verant Interactive, Inc.

My response, equally as predictable:

Excuse me? Kindly point out to me where in that document is stated any copyright, trademark notice, or even any identification other than your word that it actually originated within Verant.

(Play good cop, I play nice. Play bad cop, I get downright pissy.)

Lum the Mad
President and CEO
Lum the Mad

We’ll see where this goes. I, of course, wouldn’t want to encourage you to download this document and mirror it on your own site or anything. That would be bad.