Re: Mail conventions

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:52:47 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:

>
> Erik,
>
> I am copying the list so everyone understands what's up with this issue,
> and by the way, I agree with you, and will attempt to do better.
>
> Any emails I send can end up as court exhibits, and could be subject to
> sanctions and findings of acting in "bad faith" if it looks like I'm
> redacting portions of them. Since we get sued by Novell at least once
> per year, we have to produce massive amounts of email to their attorneys
> during production requests. What you are talking about is "redacting" a
> portion of the email thread. I have been personally fined by the
> courts upwards of $100,000.00 per production requests for alleged
> "missing" email fragments.

Can you cite the specific Court and docket number in which you were
fined?

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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