oh, pleasepleaseplease! what did the Mad Dr. do?

Dammit, Larry, I left that "(r)" out as bait ;p
To be serious, there is a profound difference between the occasional typographic error and what strongly resembles functional near-illiteracy. Oh, ok, that's a little strong. How does "severely inarticulate" strike you? Having both lawyers and physicians in the family, and having worked as an independent contractor for KPMG LLP, I agree that there are some linguistically challenged folks out there in suitland. However, they can usually be relied upon to be able to string together a few coherent sentences. One would at least HOPE that someone with a strong legal background would be able to properly spell the word "legal", yes?
Or perhaps you LIKE having an advocate with what seems to be an earned-by-mail GED? shrugging shoulders, moving on
What sense I have wrested from the tortured verbiage of the post in question seems to indicate that BS thinks SR has no case, and/or no hope in hell of getting a trial. That's bull. This could be handled in a small-claims court. It could be handled by trial in-absentia. E-mails are subject to subpeona. If those transmitted defamatory e-mails were sent to a plethora of her clients or people in the community as a form letter (ie: was sent as spam), contain her name or working-name, and contain demonstrably false statements, they constitute a campaign of serial defamation with intent to harm. If any of these e-mails crossed state or national borders it may very well constitute a form of interstate fraud.
Like I said, bull.
It comes down to evidence, not opinion. If SR has more than one e-mail as described above, with headers tracing them back to a person's specific e-mail addy, SR has a case. If, on the other hand, SR does not have such evidence, or if the e-mails were routed through proxy servers... then there is a bit of a problem proving source/origin, and then SR would probably be S.O.L.
Finally, "Common Sense" and the law have little at all to do with one another. eg:
Common Sense - a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
Legal Sense - a rose by any other name is NOT a rose.
Do I have a point? Maybe. I have seen internet defamatory campaigns waged before, and one of the common tactics for a slandering aggressor to use is to post misleading and sometimes pseudo-friendly statements in a public forum under a pseudonym. There is a long-standing internet stalking case in a suburb of Atlanta with which I am rather familiar, and it features such nonsense as I have described.
I am not saying that Blacksteel is the one who is defaming SR, merely saying that such a poorly crafted and essentially incorrect post of "leagal" (sic) advice makes my ingrained suspicions twitch their ears.

just a note to Blacksteel: you claim to have a "strong Legal background"??? And yet you make 17 seious spelling, grammatic, and diction errors in your first multisentence paragraph alone???

no offense taken. I tend not to use emoticons, nor couch my posts in superfluous obsequy. I am not "in step" with the current culture, so I do not consider formal correctness insufficiently friendly for discourse between relative strangers. Trust me, you will know if I have been offended. ;)

in terms of render engines: AutoCAD 2000 kicks some serious ass, but is an hellacious memory hog and is not exactly Poser-friendly.

"...if you bought a product elsewhere, or for certain freesuff items, check the EULA you purchased it under. You'd be surprised what slips in there, sometimes." I was not taking anyone specific to task, since the incident which initiated this discussion appears to have been much as you describe. I was taking the above-quoted absurdity to task.

as I said at the other site, good luck on the scalp-hunt. sounds like a real pissant has a personal axe to grind. pity he/she picked on you, you have struck me as decent and honorable.

"what do you mean by that?" I mean I have been a nitpicker for good reason for a lot longer than Poser has been around.

Why on earth are sales and ownership of electronic stuff not covered by the common practice of the real world? If I purchase a thing from a producer or his duly licensed vendor, that thing is mine to do with as I choose - so long as I do not claim that I am the originator of that thing, nor replicate that thing for distribution. I can resell the original - that does not have deleterious effect on the profits of the originator, since he has made his money off that one thing once. If I were to copy that thing and sell or give away these copies I would then certainly be cutting into the profits of that thing's originator and be guilty of plagiarism/piracy. Once I become competent in the process of doing so, it is my firm intent to make and sell props/models, and I would be quite upset if an end-user bootlegged any of them and distributed these illegitimate copies - that'd be money out of MY pocket, and since I was the one who put in the brainsweat and time in that object's creation it is fair to deem this as theft on both an ethical and legal basis. Additionally, I would be a little annoyed if some clown flounced around CLAIMING to have created this object, since that could also hurt my profits (by diverting customers) on top of being a massive insult and quite possibly an example of identity fraud - which is a felony. On the other hand, why the hell should I be allowed to "demand" credit for these props in each and every single public use thereof? That's excessive. I'd appreciate such recognition, but I just don't see how demanding it could be legally justified. That'd be like Mazda demanding that every time I brought my B2200 light pickup to a full, complete stop I "must" get out and at the top of my voice sing the Mazda corporate anthem! Such nonsense.

eek! I'm not "poser folk" - I've a BA in Classical History from Tulane!

machinist's mantra: never trust nobody and never assume a dad-blamed thing. (ie - nothing is ever "obvious" to everyone)

grey cat - my default new draft format (I created this custom default years ago) has isolines set to 25 and facetres set at 5. Don't really know how this affects exploded solids/3ds export surface complexity.

football helmet for what model (poserdude, posette, what version, vickie or mike?) It might or might not matter. Since this is a "dumb" prop, I could probably make one tonight. IM me and we'll talk.

this isn't a fire fight - I just forgot to append an appropriate emoticon.

gives PD box of slightly used kleenex