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Techdirt Asks Judge To Dismiss Another Lawsuit By That Guy Who Didn't Invent Email (arstechnica.com)
Three months ago Shiva Ayyadurai won a $750,000 settlement from Gawker (after they'd already gone bankrupt). He'd argued Gawker defamed him by mocking Ayyadurai's claim he'd invented email, and now he's also suing Techdirt founder Michael Masnick -- who is not bankrupt, and is fighting back. Long-time Slashdot reader walterbyrd quotes Ars Technica:
In his motion, Masnick claims that Ayyadurai "is seeking to use the muzzle of a defamation action to silence those who question his claim to historical fame." He continues, "The 14 articles and 84 allegedly defamatory statements catalogued in the complaint all say essentially the same thing: that Defendants believe that because the critical elements of electronic mail were developed long before Ayyadurai's 1978 computer program, his claim to be the 'inventor of e-mail' is false"...
The motion skims the history of e-mail and points out that the well-known fields of e-mail messages, like "to," "from," "cc," "subject," "message," and "bcc," were used in ARPANET e-mail messages for years before Ayyadurai made his "EMAIL" program. Ayyadurai focuses on statements calling him a "fake," a "liar," or a "fraud" putting forth "bogus" claims. Masnick counters that such phrases are "rhetorical hyperbole" meant to express opinions and reminds the court that "[t]he law provides no redress for harsh name-calling."
The motion calls the lawsuit "a misbegotten effort to stifle historical debate, silence criticism, and chill others from continuing to question Ayyadurai's grandiose claims." Ray Tomlinson has been dead for less than a year, but in this fascinating 1998 article recalled testing the early email protocols in 1971, remembering that "Most likely the first message was QWERTYIOP."
The motion skims the history of e-mail and points out that the well-known fields of e-mail messages, like "to," "from," "cc," "subject," "message," and "bcc," were used in ARPANET e-mail messages for years before Ayyadurai made his "EMAIL" program. Ayyadurai focuses on statements calling him a "fake," a "liar," or a "fraud" putting forth "bogus" claims. Masnick counters that such phrases are "rhetorical hyperbole" meant to express opinions and reminds the court that "[t]he law provides no redress for harsh name-calling."
The motion calls the lawsuit "a misbegotten effort to stifle historical debate, silence criticism, and chill others from continuing to question Ayyadurai's grandiose claims." Ray Tomlinson has been dead for less than a year, but in this fascinating 1998 article recalled testing the early email protocols in 1971, remembering that "Most likely the first message was QWERTYIOP."
Or should I say, "QWERTYIOP"
This article has been archived? Weird error...
As far as I am aware, "666BOX" by IPSharp had all the features he's claimed and was first written in 1974. That is, to, cc, bcc, reply etc.
I'm sure others here can come up with other examples?
He is as bad as APK here in claiming they invented anything.
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Just why you might ask, are muslims the mortal enemy of decency and civilisation? Simple. Look to their genes.
Genetically muslims are largely of Negro ancestry. If you take the time to observe the police mug shots of your typical muslim you will notice the wide flared nostrils, negroid "liver" lips, negroid eyes in shape and coloration, and lazy "sleepy" drooping eyelids. Generally a muslim's skin is slightly lighter than a"chocolate drop" Negro, but nonetheless, a brown color usually associated with the Negro race. Both the muslim, and its darker kin have their roots in the African continent.
Also notice the obvious genetic mutations on most muslims--peculiar malformed ears, oddly shaped skulls, asymmetric arrangement of the facial features. Most muslims are inbred. Not just within their "religion" but within their "tribe". When these symptoms and deformities are observed among ordinary non-muslim humans, it is generally a sign of some sort of genetic defect or mental retardation. Take a moment to study the features of the 9/11 hijackers, and it is patently obvious that these animals all exhibit the classic muslim deformities.
Muslim tribes are composed of groups of 50 to 100 individuals who share a common name and genetic heritage. All marriage occurs from within these muslim tribes, i.e. intra-marriage, and is between first cousins. However, under some circumstances in muslim tradition, it's even allowable for a mother to marry her son, or a father to marry his daughter, as shocking and as alien as that may be to the non-muslim world.
Although in civilized societies marriage of this kind has long been outlawed, within the muslim world marriage between first cousins is the norm. This only compounds the basic genetic defects of the muslim race. And like all compound interest, the effects of the compounding over generation after generation serve to amplify the deformities. In effect a genetic monster, both mental and physical, has been created, a creature more suitable for the Island of Dr. Moreau, than a being fit for human society.
Can a muslim change its barbarism? Can a leopard change its spots? It's in the genes, stupid!
He did, after all, invent the entire friggin' internet.
He should claim to have invented street-shitting. That'd be a lot more credible.
Masnick counters that such phrases are "rhetorical hyperbole" meant to express opinions and reminds the court that "[t]he law provides no redress for harsh name-calling."
Unless that name-calling happens to involve a racially-derogatory term. Then it's a hate-crime!
Steyn called Mann a fraud, so Mann sued. Then Steyn countersued. Been in DC courts for years now.
Then Steyn wrote a whole book on why Mann was a fraud based on other scientists quotes about Mann.
Maybe someone should do that here?
My first eMail was in the 1980s prior to DNS. name1986@IPv4
Unaccountable leaders are masters, and unrepresented people are slaves. How do US and EU fare?
His parents invented "precious snowflakes".
Email squawkboi back to Bangladesh ... he is costing USA citizens million$ clogging courts with frivolous lawsuits. Screw his attorneys also ... take all their property for use-of homeless vets --- sell shysters wife and daughters to Saudi whore-houses.
I invented email and have a shirt to prove that I did.
CAP === 'octopus'
Isn't this guy perchance associated with the kid who claimed to have invented a digital clock. Too bad Obama didn't invite this shithead to the white house for a pat on the back.
He cleverly won against a bankrupt company, which probably did not show up in court. He does not really have to win against TechDirt or anyone. He has already acquired enough blind followers who would shut out contradictory information, who are in the alternative facts realm. So he is in a no lose proposition. Win, he gets money and more credence. Lose, he would go back to "how big companies in big bad USA had stolen his invention and used high power and money to shut out a poor Indian immigrant". Either way his meal ticket is safe.
So he is going sue me now? For defaming his character?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
This guy is pretty much equal to trump.
I am not even kidding (link below is from 2005):
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
I will be filing my lawsuit against gawker and then techdirt shortly.
Kill him, put his head on a pike. Can't sue anyone when you're dead, can you? Leave the head for anyone who feels like it to use it as urinal. Problem solved.
It reads "I invented e-mail, and all I got was this stupid T-Shirt!"
That P.O.S. is a fucking troll and needs to be slapped down, hard!
How come nobody has set up url's with names like:
shivaayyaduraiisafuckingliar.net, or shivaayyaduraididnotinventemail.net, etc.?
If I had the money to do that I sure would.
Nothing is 100% reliable and if you want to find out something reliably the right way to go about it is to find better facts, not just merely claim because you happen to sometimes get them wrong any given fact is wrong.
You can use Big Names e.g. The Man Formerly Known As Prince (May he rest in peace), The Guy who Did Not invent Email The Cow that started the Chicago Fire, etc
total douche bag
vinegar n water, not even spring rain..
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