Scott Seidman wrote:
"Tom Littleton" wrote in
news:RDElk.163$_H1.133@trnddc05:

apparently, Dennis the Dickhead feels that he has every right to
appropriate our content for his website, without permission, and to
claim copyright for his subsequent use.
He emphasized that again, this morning, on his site.

Sadly, the suggestion to go to 'cease and desists' would seem to be
the only recourse. I have made a couple inquiries this morning, and
had to meet with family lawyers this week anyway(sucks for Denny that
I am on vacation, with loads of free time this week). What sort of
stinks is that the end result might be a closure of the NJFlyfishing
website, which seems to have a goodly number of decent folks using it
in a responsible fashion. It is a shame that they cannot seem to
prevail on their administration to see common sense.

Looks like he's claiming all the Catskill Fly Tyers Guild stuff, and a
whole bunch of paflyfish stuff and Delaware River stuff as his own content
as well. This guy understands zip about web linking etiquette.

Clearly, he just wants to fill some content to sell ads, and solicit
"contributions" to run his clearinghouse of everybody else's content. I
wish I could find a way to generate money off of everybody's mouse clicks.

Well, if he keeps his word posting to roff and rofft from NEFF
will remain disabled. That was the biggest issue to my mind.
Those poor schmucks didn't know they were posting to Usenet and
some of them were appalled when they found out they had done so.

Yeah, it's sleazy as hell to misrepresent the Usenet newsgroup
roff as the NEFF - Global Fly Fishing Forum but I don't think it's
actionable. Dennis Cabarle is clearly a scumbag but sadly there
is ofttimes no legal recourse against scumbags.

My posts don't show up over there, he put me in a killfile along
with Tom Littleton, and their posts don't show up here. It made
for a fun weekend but I'm going to declare victory and go take
a shower after wrestling with a scumbag.

--
Ken Fortenberry