Dear Law-Lib'ers:
Here is some incredible stuff by our favorite flamer from another list.
My ealier posting was apparently forwarded to a number of other lists and
the comments here are about my posting to readers of one of the other
lists. From the addresses, it looks like a list called "network2d-l".
Greg Miller is forwarding these comments to readers of another list and
someone forwarded it to me. I won't comment on it, it speaks for itself.
It's incredible, hold on to your hats:
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From: IN%"network2d-l@austin.onu.edu" 2-NOV-1994 17:29:40.79
Subj: RE: The TAP Meeting Report
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1994 18:29:32 -0500
From: Gregory Miller <gam@inherent.com>
Subject: Re: The TAP Meeting Report
This came in from an attendee at the meeting in response to the
posting on Law-Lib about the TAP meeting proceedings. I posted the same
thing David posted earlier, at about the same time, to the Citation
Committee's ListServer to see what the rest of the attendees had to
say.
This is one person's response who has (unitl now) been relatively quiet
on
the subject of the meeting. He is speaking with regards to the posting
from rleiter@cldc.howard.edu to law-lib@ucdavis.edu about the october
19th
meeting. If you did not see that posting, ask David for another copy.
The bottom line to me is this thing is out of hand, because
reasonable minds could easily differ on who to believe (and there seems
ot
be more than three sides to it :-)
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> Greg:
> The fact is that what Leiter says is completely ridiculous.
> It is almost as if he attended another meeting. In the meantime,
> what he said about me (not using my name) actually bordered on
> libel because he used quotation marks around words never used by
> me.
>
> Anyway, as I noted before, Jamie Love has done more for this issue
> than five years of TECHSHOW, ABA committeess, and most Bar groups.
> He is not always correct on the nuances, but I can tell you he is
> very smart and listens very well. But, the Leiter letter is total
> bulls**t. Actually, lately Love has gotten good on the nuances,
> and, probably understands the issues now better than 99% of lawyers.
>
> The AALL is the only law group that has pushed this along in
> consistent manner. I do not know Leiter's background, but he cannot
> be a very good attorney since I could easily sue him for libel if
> he does not correct what he said.
>
> Anyway, your message goes to show again that attacks such as this
> must receive a response.
>
> Speak to anyone you know who was at the meeting. Leiter's work is
> the most dangerous form of fiction ... for there are occasional
> pieces of reality.
>
> So, talk to those who were there. Do a survey, then come back and
> announce your results, but please think again about posting statements
> like yours publicly. West must love it. What made you give any
> credibility to what Leiter said? Interesting.
>
> With supporters like you falling for this stuff and going public
> without checking the facts, then we are in trouble.
>
> Touche again.
>
> Anyway, I am a trained lawyer. A real trained lawyer. So is Lederer
> from Wisconsin. Not so with many of the law librarians. [Yes] they
> have law degrees. Most have never filed a brief, clerked for a
> judge, written a contract, or taken a depostions. Many have never
> been away from FREE Lexis or Westlaw, and have always had offices
> in "libraries" full of books. Once Jamie gets his law degree, I
> would have him represent me in a minute. (Also his father was a
> judge). Why do you not ask Leiter about his background?
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-Greg
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For the record and for the benefit of the flamer:
I got a double BA from UC Santa Cruz (with honors); JD from Southwestern
Univ (law review); MLIS from Univ of Texas, Austin. I interned for Hon.
David W. Williams, Central District of California and clerked at the LA
District Attorney's Office in the Career Criminal Unit. My sole purpose
for earning my JD was to become a law librarian. I have had about six
years as a firm librarian, and about nine years in academics, includiing
UT's Tarlton Law Library. I have written extensively on computers and
legal research and served as chair of AALL's Automation and Scientific
Development SIS, edited the SIS's newsletter, _Automatome_, and edited
the Law Library Hi-Tech Column of the AALL's Monthly Newsletter. I don't
know that you need to know all this in order to find my observations on
the meeting credible. But if it helps, fine. All I know is, I was there.
Richard Leiter
Director and Associate Professor of Law
Allen Mercer Daniel Law Library
Howard University School of Law
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