Jeff Nelson informs Mr. Cohen and his webmaster that Cohen has violated the hosting Terms of Service, and FTP privileges to Mr. Cohen's site have been terminated.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: removal of article
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 17:05:35 -0800
From: Jeff Nelson
Organization: VegSource Interactive, Inc.
To: Robert Cohen
CC: "Dave Rietz (DORway.com)"

Hi, Rob:

I received an email from Stephen Walsh that you have an article on your site
in which you call him an "infiltrator." Stephen complained to me that this is
false and libelous, and requested that action be taken to remove it. I looked at
the article and have, in fact, removed it. I have also changed the password for
ftp-ing to notmilk.

You said before to me that you believed Walsh to be an infiltrator, but
presented absolutely no evidence to back this up. Regardless of whether
Walsh is or is not an infiltrator (and I have no reason to believe he is), in the
absence of any evidence I agree that your article is defammatory to him.

When you have a new ISP, it will be their problem and not mine whether you
are defaming someone, and you can publish whatever you want.

In the meantime, it has been two weeks since you said you would remove
your sites from my server, and checking the internic records it shows no
change has been made to move off VegSource. I will not shut down your site
at this time because I don't want you to be off the Internet, and I understand
from Dave that you have had problems changing the Internic record. But I
know from experience that those problems can be handled expeditiously using
services like Federal Express, and that Network Solutions has expedited
services available for a fee.

Please save any breath in carping or complaining. I've been more than fair in
giving you free hosting for years, and I certainly don't deserve to have you
telling others I "kicked you off my server" when we all know that's not true --
you chose to leave rather than respecting someone else's rights.

Jeff

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